Episode 1: The Shamans of Southern Africa

Our first episode talking about the San tribes of southern Africa and their shamanistic practices with archaeological evidence of cave paintings. 

 

Bibliography:

1. Dowson, Thomas A. "Painting as Politics: Exposing Historical Processes in Hunter-Gatherer Rock Art." In *Hunter-Gatherers in the Modern World*, edited by Peter P. Schweitzer, Megan Biesele, and Robert K. Hitchcock, 413-426. Berghahn Books, 2000.

2. Jolly, Pieter. "Modelling Change in the Contact Art of the South-Eastern San, Southern Africa." In *Archaeology of Rock Art*, edited by Christopher Chippendale and Paul S.C. Tacon, 247-267. Cambridge University Press, 1998.

3. Lewis-Williams, J. D. "Southern African Shamanistic Rock Art in Its Social and Cognitive Contexts." In *Archaeology of Shamanism*, edited by Neil S. Price, 17-39. Routledge, 2001.

4. Lewis-Williams, David. *The Mind in the Cave: Consciousness and the Origins of Art*. Thames & Hudson, 2002.

5. Solomon, Anne. "Ethnography and Method in Southern African Rock-Art Research." In *Archaeology of Rock Art*, edited by Christopher Chippendale and Paul S.C. Tacon, 268-284. Cambridge University Press, 1998.

6. Whitley, David S. "Hunter-Gatherer Religion and Ritual." In *The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology and Anthropology of Hunter-Gatherers*, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2018, pp. 1221–1242.