My Heart Stands in the Hill
My Heart Stands in the Hill
Janette Deacon,Craig Foster
Subjects: San (African people) -- Pictorial works.,Art, San.,Rock paintings -- South Africa -- Western Cape.,San (African people) -- Social life and customs.
Description
Description
Product Description
There are remote parts of this country that seem untouched since the time Bushmen walked and hunted and danced there. There are archives in Cape Town with thousands of pages of Bushman lore, transcribed painstakingly by language specialists of the 1800s. There’s an ever-expanding audience of readers hungry for the wisdom represented by our First Peoples. My Heart Stands in the Hill represents the tragically intertwined journeys of some of these First Peoples and European settlers, the fascinating spiritual travels of /Xam (medicine men) and (rock artists), and the pilgrimage of a modern archaeologist and filmmaker who symbolically return the image of these early South Africans to the landscape that was their home.
Craig Foster and Janette Deacon locate significant places described by these people and find rock engravings that record ancient shamanistic experiences connected with rainmaking and other rituals. The viewer/reader is transported to the landscapes through powerful images of the engravings in their setting. Photographs of the /Xam people themselves are brought back to the landscape by projecting the portraits onto the land.
About the Author
Janette Deacon is a well-published archaeologist who specializes in the 19th century /Xam Bushmen.
Craig Foster is an award-winning filmmaker who has won international acclaim for his two Bushman films, The Great Dance and Cosmic Africa.
There are remote parts of this country that seem untouched since the time Bushmen walked and hunted and danced there. There are archives in Cape Town with thousands of pages of Bushman lore, transcribed painstakingly by language specialists of the 1800s. There’s an ever-expanding audience of readers hungry for the wisdom represented by our First Peoples. My Heart Stands in the Hill represents the tragically intertwined journeys of some of these First Peoples and European settlers, the fascinating spiritual travels of /Xam (medicine men) and (rock artists), and the pilgrimage of a modern archaeologist and filmmaker who symbolically return the image of these early South Africans to the landscape that was their home.
Craig Foster and Janette Deacon locate significant places described by these people and find rock engravings that record ancient shamanistic experiences connected with rainmaking and other rituals. The viewer/reader is transported to the landscapes through powerful images of the engravings in their setting. Photographs of the /Xam people themselves are brought back to the landscape by projecting the portraits onto the land.
About the Author
Janette Deacon is a well-published archaeologist who specializes in the 19th century /Xam Bushmen.
Craig Foster is an award-winning filmmaker who has won international acclaim for his two Bushman films, The Great Dance and Cosmic Africa.
Details
Details
Publisher/Supplier: Struik Publishers
Date Published: 2005
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 1770071253
Language: en
Pages: 208
Length: 11.75 inches,Width: 1 inches,Height: 11.5 inches
146 in stock
