My Heart Stands in the Hill Author: Janette Deacon & Craig Foster

My Heart Stands in the Hill 

Author: Janette Deacon & Craig Foster  

Publisher: Struik Publishers    

Edition: First 2005

ISBN: 1 77007 125 3

Language: English  

Condition: Excellent. As new copy with no markings and tight binding 

Binding: Hardcover with dustcover    

Pages: 191. Text with images 

Additional Information

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. Theres 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.

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