ABSTRACT
Ontologies of Rock Art is the first publication to explore a wide range of ontological approaches to rock art interpretation, constituting the basis for groundbreaking studies on Indigenous knowledges, relational metaphysics, and rock imageries.
The book contributes to the growing body of research on the ontology of images by focusing on five main topics: ontology as a theoretical framework; the development of new concepts and methods for an ontological approach to rock art; the examination of the relationships between ontology, images, and Indigenous knowledges; the development of relational models for the analysis of rock images; and the impact of ontological approaches on different rock art traditions across the world.
Generating new avenues of research in ontological theory, political ontology, and rock art research, this collection will be relevant to archaeologists, anthropologists, and philosophers. In the context of an increasing interest in Indigenous ontologies, the volume will also be of interest to scholars in Indigenous studies.
Chapter 14 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license available at https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.4324/9780429321863/ontologies-rock-art-oscar-moro-abad%C3%ADa-martin-porr?context=ubx&refId=3766b051-4754-4339-925c-2a262a505074
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|81 pages
Philosophical and historical perspectives
chapter 2|18 pages
Rock art and the ontology of images
chapter 4|23 pages
Ontology and human evolution
part II|106 pages
Rock art and Indigenous knowledges
chapter 5|18 pages
A lesson in time
chapter 8|22 pages
Art, representation, and the ontology of images
part III|114 pages
Humans, animals, and more-than-human beings
chapter 10|22 pages
“When elephants were people”
chapter 14|17 pages
The faceless men
chapter 15|16 pages
Hunters and shamans, sex and death
part IV|96 pages
Syncretism, contact, and contemporary rock art