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McCleary, Timothy Paul.

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Ghosts on the land: Apsaalooke (Crow Indian) interpretations of rock art.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Ghosts on the land: Apsaalooke (Crow Indian) interpretations of rock art./
Author:	McCleary, Timothy Paul.
Description:	277 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 69-05, Section: A, page: 1847.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International69-05A.
Subject:	Anthropology, Archaeology. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3314852
ISBN:	9780549641636

Ghosts on the land: Apsaalooke (Crow Indian) interpretations of rock art.
McCleary, Timothy Paul.

Ghosts on the land: Apsaalooke (Crow Indian) interpretations of rock art. - 277 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 69-05, Section: A, page: 1847.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2008.

Memories of historical representational art, concepts derived from Native values and beliefs, and positioning in the landscape provide information critical to interpretations of rock art by present-day Apsaalooke or Crow Indians of southeastern Montana. The Crow people recognize pictographs and petroglyphs as texts of occurrences in the past or images of visionary experiences or as ominous messages of future events.

ISBN: 9780549641636Subjects--Topical Terms:

622985
Anthropology, Archaeology.

Ghosts on the land: Apsaalooke (Crow Indian) interpretations of rock art.
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520 $a Memories of historical representational art, concepts derived from Native values and beliefs, and positioning in the landscape provide information critical to interpretations of rock art by present-day Apsaalooke or Crow Indians of southeastern Montana. The Crow people recognize pictographs and petroglyphs as texts of occurrences in the past or images of visionary experiences or as ominous messages of future events.
520 $a Crows understand textual rock art with narrative features as created by humans and termed baahpawaalaatuua/rock writing. These are interpreted as depictions of biographic warrior achievements, larger group histories and appear along historic travel routes or intense use areas. Also within the category of baahpawaalaatuua are static images of spiritual beings or supernatural powers derived from visionary experiences. These images are located in mountainous areas or high points in the land.
520 $a Ominous messages are described as being made by the souls of deceased human beings, called ahpalaaxawaalaatuua/ghost writings. Ghosts are thought to change these narrative images to describe the future of the viewer or his or her group. These images are located in caves, overhangs and narrow coulees. Historically these areas were sometimes visited by warriors who wished to see the outcome of future military activities. Today these sites are purposely avoided. The two Native categories of rock art are not mutually exclusive, but they are usually defined as one or the other based primarily on their location in the landscape.
520 $a People invest the physical landscape with significant meaning, both historical and spiritual, and rock art is the land literally inscribed with cultural texts. Although some variability exists within how contemporary people interpret historic rock art, cultural concepts of space and place are fundamental to the way rock art is discussed, experienced and interpreted. Rock art was created in specific places which ultimately informs interpretation. Individual knowledge and meaning of rock art panels relies as much on collective concepts of landscape as it does on shared memories of historic culture.
520 $a The central concerns of this thesis, therefore, are how Crow people "read" rock art and why some images are seen as human made while others are believed to be created by ghosts. The Crow cultural knowledge of rock art is embedded in narratives and practice. Meaning is created through memory, experience and visitation or avoidance of rock art sites.
520 $a Chapters 4, 5 and 6 explore Crow knowledge and the rendering of meaning through the current memories of historic Crow culture, present-day interpretations and performance at sites, augmented by the ethnographic record and historical documentation.
520 $a The seemingly divergent interpretations are reconciled by the cultural perceptions of the medium employed-the immovable rock cliff. Crow interpretations of rock art, therefore, rest as much on the rock face and its place in the landscape as on the comprehension of culturally defined symbols.
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