Masks and demons
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TextLondon Martin Hopkinson & Co., Ltd. 1924Description: [xiv], 177p.; illContent type: - text
- unmediated
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Part 1 - Magic. 1 Totem masks. 2 Demon masks. 3 Medicine masks. Part 2 - Awe. 4 A mummy mask. 5 Spiritualistic masks. 6 A skull mask. 7 Idol masks. 8 Disciplinary masks. 9 A divine mask. 10 War masks. 11 Carnival masks. 12 Initiation masks. Part 3 - Legend. 13 Automatic masks. 14 Rain-making masks. 15 Dionysiac masks. Part 4 - The play begins. 16 Heroic masks. 17 Admonitory masks. 18 Theatrical masks. 19 Exorcism
'The mask is one of the variable features that arise out of the spirit-traffic of primitive man. It is a sort of animated fetish through which he works magic and controls the spirits. Some races are too low to conceive of the idea of a false face into which a god will go when a man wears it. No races are too high not to have some trace of it in their history, and even in their present customs....' --Foreword
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