Rock Art and Memory in the Transmission of Cultural Knowledge

Dr Zubieta will precede the proposed edited book. Her general aim for this book is to address contemporary debates and discussion around how the intersection of rock art and memory can advance our knowledge of rock art research and interpretation. Her interest in this topic has been nurtured from her contact with indigenous peoples and colleagues throughout her academic positions (see CV). In particular, her work on rock art as a mnemonic device in girls' initiation rock art in south-central Africa (Zubieta, 2006, 2016) has been the primary influence in her career to pursue this line of research. Leslie graduated in archaeology with distinction in the National School of Anthropology and History (Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia, ENAH) in Mexico City (2002). She obtained an MSc (2004) and PhD in rock art studies in the University of Witwatersrand in South Africa (2009). Leslie has enjoyed research stays in Austin (United States), Paris, Périgueux and Toulouse (France). Throughout her professional career she has participated in various projects in Australia, Malawi, Mexico, Mozambique and Zambia. Her research focuses on rock art, cultural material, gender and memory. One of her main contributions is her study of how Chewa women created and used rock art as a mnemonic device in south-central Africa, attesting that art has a fundamental role in the intergenerational transmission of cultural knowledge. In particular, her attention has focused on the functionality and symbolic intersection of rock art and plastic arts in the initiation ceremonies of girls in Chewa society. She is currently a Marie Sklodowska- Curie Postdoctoral Fellow leading the MEMORISING H2020 project funded by the European Commission, which deals precisely with the intersections of rock art, memory and acoustics.

Preface.- Part 1. Theoretical Debates.- Chapter 1. Memories in the Making. Rock Art, Ecology and Differentiation.- Chapter 2. Memories and Rock Art in the Southern Andes: "This was left to us by the Incas".- Chapter 3. Culture, Memory and Rock Art.- Chapter 4. Creation Processes Behind Rock Art: The Role of Memorization in Passing on Cultural Knowledge.- Part 2. The Memory of Rock Art in Non-Direct Ethnographic Contexts.- Chapter 5. Geographies of the Invisible: Rock Art, Memory and Ancestral Topologies in Western Iberia.- Chapter 6. Most Deserve to be Forgotten - Could the Southern Scandinavian Rock Art Memorialize Heroes?.- Chapter 7. Memories and Materiality. The Construction of Social Memory in Cerro Colorado.- Chapter 8. The Role of Rock Art in the Prevalence of Memory and Cultural Transmission.- Chapter 9. The Memory of Rock Art, Ethnography and Community Participation.- Chapter 10. River, Stone, and 'The Rain's Magic Power': Rock Art and Re-Membering in the Northern Cape, SouthAfrica.- Chapter 11. Padeo Masir - Elements of the Culture of Respect among Humans, Nonhumans and tã Woritire (Petroglyph Sites) through a Tuyuka Perspective.- Chapter 12. Handprints, Footprints, and Hairwhorls: The Intersection of Petroglyphs, Cultural Identity, and Collective Memory in the American Southwest.- Index.