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James David Lewis-Williams

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South Africa

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Archaeology, Art

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Lewis-Williams had been interested in archaeology in his youth.[2] When interviewed on 19 February 2014 in his office at the Rock Art Research Institute (RARI) at WITS, Lewis-Williams related that in the early days of apartheid, there were very few English-speaking archaeology teaching posts available. One was held by John Goodwin at the University of Cape Town (UCT) and the other was held by Clarence Van Riet Lowe at WITS. These posts were in addition to several Afrikaans-speaking posts held at the University of Pretoria (UP)as well as a number of national museums. To major in archaeology was not an option for an undergraduate in South Africa at the time, and in 1952 Lewis-Williams enrolled for a BA at UCT majoring in English and Geography ...more

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	The Mind in the Cave: Consciousness and the Origins of Art 4.12 avg rating — 908 ratings — published 2002 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Inside the Neolithic Mind: Consciousness, Cosmos, and the Realm of the Gods by James David Lewis-Williams, David Pearce 3.88 avg rating — 415 ratings — published 2005 — 29 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Conceiving God: The Cognitive Origin and Evolution of Religion 3.91 avg rating — 57 ratings — published 2010 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Deciphering Ancient Minds: The Mystery of San Bushmen Rock Art by James David Lewis-Williams, Sam Challis 4.24 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 2011 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	San Rock Art: A Jacana Pocket Guide 3.58 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2011 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Cosmos in Stone: Interpreting Religion and Society Through Rock Art 4.55 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2002 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Images of Power: Understanding Bushman Rock Art by James David Lewis-Williams, Thomas Dowson 4.33 avg rating — 9 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Stories that Float from Afar: Ancestral Folklore of the San of South Africa (Volume 5) (Texas A&M University Anthropology Series) 4.11 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2000 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	San Spirituality: Roots, Expression, and Social Consequences (African Archaeology Series) 3.75 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2004 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Discovering Southern African Rock Art (Southern African Archaeology series) 4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1990 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Scientists do not collect data randomly and utterly comprehensively. The data they collect are only those that they consider *relevant* to some hypothesis or theory.”
― David Lewis-Williams, The Mind in the Cave: Consciousness and the Origins of Art

tags: data, hypothesis, science, theory

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“The economic base of a social formation, the infrastructure, includes the social relations of production the produce the material necessities of life. In doing so, it produces the superstructure, that is, ideology, belief, religion, and juridical controls.”
― David Lewis-Williams

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“A shaman’s activities as a sorcerer, or his own conscious act of entry into the supernatural world, were a kind of “killing”.”
― James David Lewis-Williams, The Mind in the Cave: Consciousness and the Origins of Art

tags: consciousness, upper-palaeolithic-art

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