This item has closed 1 buyer bought 1 item
View other items offered by Canil1894

Similar products

VOICES OF ZIMBABWE - THE PAIN - THE COURAGE - THE HOPE - GLYN HUNTER, LARRY FARREN, ALTHEA FARREN
R70
R30 shipping
`HEART OF AN AFRICAN HUNTER - STORIES OF THE BIG FIVE AND THE TINY TEN` BY PETER FLACK
R1,500
R30 shipping
Prehistoric Rock Art of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland by Elizabeth Goodall
R950
Cry Zimbabwe: Independence - Twenty Years On by Peter Stiff
R90

A Hunter's Vision, the prehistoric art of Zimbabwe - Peter Garlake

Secondhand
R195.00
Shipping
Standard courier shipping from R30
R30 Standard shipping using one of our trusted couriers applies to most areas in South Africa. Some areas may attract a R30 surcharge. This will be calculated at checkout if applicable.
Check my rate
Free collection from The Island, Sedgefield
The seller allows collection for this item and will be in contact with the full collection address once the order is ready. Ready for collection by Thursday, 4 April.
Ready to ship in
The seller has indicated that they will usually have this item ready to ship within 3 business days. Shipping time depends on your delivery address. The most accurate delivery time will be calculated at checkout, but in general, the following shipping times apply:
 
Standard Delivery
Main centres:  1-3 business days
Regional areas: 3-4 business days
Remote areas: 3-5 business days
Buyer Protection How you're covered
Get it now, pay later

Product information

Condition:
Secondhand
Location:
South Africa
Customer ratings:
Bob Shop ID:
149551295

Hard cover in protected DJ. University of Washington Press 1995. 176 pages.

Slight yellowing of pages but othewise in vey good condition with no inscriptions. Please feel free to ask questions.

Local postage will be R35 inc insurance.

" The Rock paintings of Zimbabwe are perhaps the least-known artistic teasures of Africa. In their abundance, variety, complexity, accuracy of observation, delicacy of execution and richness of symbolism, they are unsurpassed by any prehistoric art. This book, through detailed comparative analyses of a large number of these paintings, never before studied or illustrated, shows how the subjects were selected, how the paintings were executed, and the conventions that determined thei styles and forms.

The paintings are thousands of years old, and the cultue of the stone age hunters and foragers who created them was extinguished so long ago that it does not survive even as a distant memory.

However, though an undestanding of the basic tenets of San Societies that have been recorded or still survive in the Kalahari Desert and its fringes, the author has reconstructed something of the significance of the paintings to their creators. He places them in the context of the life and beliefs of the society that created them, explores the perceptions and ideas that they represent and interprets some of their symbolism.

This personal exploration of an artistic tradition that has hitherto been disregarded or misunderstood reveals an unexpected artistic and conceptual richness in a people that were long despised. It is illustrated throughout with the authors superb detailed tracings of the paintings and a selection of color photographs, the vast majority published here for the first time."

Please look at my other book listings as I am happy to combine postage should you wish to purchase more than one item.

10% discount will be given for orders of 5 or more books packaged and posted together.

Click the link below to see what other books I have for sale

I am a verified seller on bidorbuy.co.za

More from this seller

View all
R30 shipping
The South African Defence Force Yearbook 1986 / Die Suid-Afrikaanse Weermag Jaarboek 1986
R300
R30 shipping
The Cape Education Department 1839 -1989 compiled by Martie Borman.
R350
R30 shipping
A Nun and the pig Tales from South Africa - Treive Nicholas
R125
R30 shipping
Love is a Grapefruit. The life and times of Olive Alexanderina MacDonald nee McAndrew
R120

Customer ratings: 1 ratings

A pleasure doing business with you. Thanks a lot!
23 Jun 2014