Artefacts acquire/embody migratory meanings according to
contexts of raw material manipulation, use, discard and
discourse. First-Millennium Agriculturist ceramics and
concomitant private and public significances/use values are
placed within aspects of a deep past Stone Age history of space
and artefact usage in the Eastern Cape, South Africa. Some
thought paradigms and cultural contexts are examined as having
directly influenced discourse, what artefacts were foregrounded,
and in which manner writers of southern African prehistory
considered them. Thereafter ceramic artefacts and associated
technologies are focussed upon as being intimate to personal/
community lifeways and worldviews. Domestic and ceremonial
utilityware, figurines and masks, as well as clay usage in
homebuilding and metalworking, and urges to apply a mark to
malleable clay, or deliberately alter and/or bury ceramic
artefacts; are explored as manifestations of medium and usage
well suited to regularly reconfigured meanings . / Art History, Visual Arts and Musicology / M.A. (Art History)
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:unisa/oai:uir.unisa.ac.za:10500/771 |
| Date | 11 1900 |
| Creators | Steele, John |
| Contributors | Haute, Bernadette van |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Dissertation |
| Format | 1 online resource (xiv, 277 leages) : illustrations |
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