Masks of the spirit; image and metaphor in Mesoamerica
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TextBerkeley/Los Angeles/Oxford Univ. of California Press c1989Description: xxi, 254p.; ill.; bibliog. notes; bibliog.; indexContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0-520-06418-6
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Intro. by Joseph Campbell.
Part 1 - The metaphor of the mask in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica. 1 The mask as the god. 2 The mask in ritual: metaphor in motion. 3 Coda I: the mask as metaphor. Part 2 - Metaphoric reflections of the cosmic order. 4 The shamanistic inner vision. 5 The temporal order. 6 The spatial order. 7 The mathematical order. 8 The life-force: source of all order. 9 Transformation: manifesting the life-force. 10 Coda II: the mask as metaphor. Part 3 - The metaphor of the mask after the conquest. 11 Syncretism: the structural effect of the conquest. 12 The pre-Columbian survivals: the masks of the Tigre. 13 The syncretic compromise: the Yaqui and Mayo Pascola. 14 Today's masks
' Masks of the Spirit is an entirely new kind of synthesis of Mesoamerican history, folklore, mythology, and cosmology....Guiding us with irresistible skill and insight through the long history of Mesoamerican masks, Roberta and Peter Markman draw deeply from previous scholarship in art history, literature, and anthropology, as well as from their own investigations.'
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