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1 online resource (283 pages) |
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""CONTENTS""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""Masks, Participants, and Audience""; ""The Many Faces of Masks and Masking: Discussion""; ""PART I: NORTH AMERICA""; ""1. Labrador Nalujuk: The Transformation of an Aboriginal Inuit Ritual Complex in a Post-Contact Setting""; ""2. Naskapi Trance: Counterbalance to the Mask""; ""3. Seneca Masks""; ""4. Cherokee Booger Mask Tradition""; ""5. Analogic Causality and the Power of Masks""; ""PART II: MIDDLE AMERICA""; ""6. The Mask and Magic of the Yaqui Paskola Clowns""; ""7. Mask Use and Meaning in Easter Ceremonialism: The Mayo Parisero"" |
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""8. Symbolic Representation in Mexican Combat Plays""""9. The Meaning of Masking in San Pedro Chenalho""; ""10. Tarascan Masks of Women as Agents of Social Control""; ""PART III: SOUTH AMERICA""; ""11. The Devil Mask: A Contemporary Variant of Andean Iconography in Oruro""; ""12. Masks in the Incaic Solstice and Equinoctial Rituals""; ""13. Being an Essence: Totemic Representation among the Eastern Bororo""; ""14. Masks and Masquerades in Venezuela""; ""PART IV: CONCLUSION AND SYNTHESIS""; ""15. The Mask and the Violation of Taboo"" |
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""16. Masks: A Re-examination, or ""Masks? You mean they affect the brain?""""""17. The Mask of Tradition""; ""REFERENCES"" |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Indian masks -- Congresses
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Indians -- Rites and ceremonies -- Congresses
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Masks -- America -- Congresses
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Indian masks
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Indians -- Rites and ceremonies
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Masks
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America
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780774857697 |
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0774857692 |
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