The art of the shaman
Subtitle: rock art of California
By: David S. Whitley.
Publisher: University of Utah Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Salt Lake City
Language: eng
Number of pages: 138
Subjects: Indians of North America -- California -- Antiquities.; Petroglyphs -- California.; Rock paintings -- California.; California -- Antiquities.
Description: Whitley, an archaeologist specializing in the study of prehistoric art and religion, interprets the symbolism of California's ancient rock art, demonstrating that these pictographs were not created simply for artistic expression, but were deliberately intended to represent a relatively few number of specific messages. Color photographs depict such things as vision questing, sexuality, the mythic past, life crises, altered states of consciousness, and more.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Originally published: L'Art des chamanes de Californie.
Table of contents: title: The discovery of Rodriguez Cabrillo; title: The native Californian world; title: Types and ages of native California rock art; title: Rock art traditions; title: Ethnography and Californian rock art; title: Altered states of consciousness and metaphors of the supernatural epilogue.