The magical arts of a raider nation : central South Afric's Korana rock art

dc.contributor.authorOuzman, Sven
dc.coverage.spatialAfricaen
dc.coverage.spatialSouth Africaen
dc.date.accessioned2010-05-20T09:59:52Z
dc.date.available2010-05-20T09:59:52Z
dc.date.issued2005
dc.description.abstractUntil recently, southern African rock art has been thought ‘San’ authored. But recent research reveals multiple rock art traditions. Khoekhoe herders produced finger-painted and rough-pecked geometric and ‘representational’ images. Europeans left quotidian names, dates and place markings. Bantu-speakers have initiation-related rock arts with recent political protest iterations. This diversity requires we use multiple sources of evidence to ascribe authorship, meaning and motivation. By paying attention to site preference, pigment, iconography, archaeology, ethnography and historiography another southern African rock art tradition is here identified. This rock art consists of red, white and orange finger and rough-brush painted humans, animals and aprons. A signature motif is the armed horse rider. There are also serpents, geometrics and paint smears. At three of 31 rock art sites recorded so far this rock art physically and conceptually interacts with San rock art. I suggest that this rock art is an 18th–19th century assemblage authored by ‘Korana’. Korana were !Kora-descended Khoekhoen into which other frontiers people insinuated themselves. Korana rock art speaks of political and militant concerns underpinned by a magical ‘occult economy’ and is an excellent case study of contingent identity formation.en_US
dc.identifier.citationOuzman, S 2005, 'The magical arts of the raider nation: central South Africa’s Korana rock art', The South African Archaeological Society Goodwin Series, vol. 9, pp. 101-113. [http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=goodwinseries]en_US
dc.identifier.issn3043460
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/14062
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherSouth African Archaeological Societyen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesThe South African Archaeological Bulletin Goodwin Seriesen_US
dc.rightsSouth African Archaeological Societyen_US
dc.subjectArchaeologyen_US
dc.subjectRock arten_US
dc.subjectCentral interioren_US
dc.subjectKoranaen_US
dc.subjectKorannaen_US
dc.subjectOccult economyen_US
dc.subjectBushmenen
dc.subject.lcshRock paintings -- South Africaen
dc.subject.lcshKorana (African people) -- South Africaen
dc.subject.lcshSan (African people) -- South Africaen
dc.titleThe magical arts of a raider nation : central South Afric's Korana rock arten_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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