De la hegemonía al panel. Una aproximación a la ideología del arte prehistórico del noreste africano. From hegemony to panel. An approach to the ideology of North Eastern African Prehistoric Rock Art

Abstract

Recent poststructuralist, postmarxist and postcolonial approaches have proven useful to interpret rock art as ideology (world vision). Thus, art is seen as a mirror where society ideally contemplated itself, in this way contributing to “suture” the ideological field of Prehistoric societies, as well as in the contemporary local groups and even the Western societies which scientifically analyse it. A preliminary attempt is also made to define a “pastoral ideology” for the past African societies, when it became hegemonic after the installing of a herding economy, and later when it ended up in an ideology of resistance for the nomad groups against the new centralized political states.