Re-enchanting rock art landscapes: Animic ontologies, nonhuman agency and rhizomic personhood

Time and Mind

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 47-69

  Wallis, Robert J ^a  

^a The American International University in London   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Animic ontologies; Landscape; Relationality; Rhizomic personhood; Rock art

Indexed keywords

EID: 68349098869     PISSN: 1751696X     EISSN: 17516978     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2752/175169709X374272     Document Type: Review

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