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Author : Maricel E. Presilla
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0805038019
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Mola written by Maricel E. Presilla and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1996-10-15 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cuna Indians live off the coast of Panama and make beautiful Molas.
Author : Mari Lyn Salvador
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Art of Being Kuna written by Mari Lyn Salvador and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The remarkable arts and culture of the Kuna of Panama are accessible in this comprehensive, illustrated volume. From the familiar reverse appliqued molas to music, dance, and verbal arts, the Kuna live their values and bind their people together. This focus and strength has helped them to resist outside forces and maintain their culture and self-determination in the face of peoples and governments far more powerful.
Author : Clyde Edgar Keeler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (68 download)
Download or read book Cuna Indian Art written by Clyde Edgar Keeler and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Francis Louis Hoover
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Arts of the Cuna Indians written by Francis Louis Hoover and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joel Sherzer
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 029270237X
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)
Download or read book Stories, Myths, Chants, and Songs of the Kuna Indians written by Joel Sherzer and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Kuna Indians of Panama, probably best known for molas, their colorful appliqué blouses, also have a rich literary tradition of oral stories and performances. One of the largest indigenous groups in the South American tropics, the majority of them (about 70,000) reside in Kuna Yala, a string of island and mainland villages stretching along the Caribbean coast. It is here that Joel Sherzer lived among them, photographing and recording their verbal performances, which he feels are representative of the beauty, complexity, and diversity of the oral literary traditions of the indigenous peoples of Latin America. This book is organized into three types of texts: humorous and moralistic stories; myths and magical chants; and women's songs. While quite different from one another, they share features characteristic of Kuna literature as a whole, including appreciation of their environment and a remarkable knowledge of their plants and animals; a belief in spirits as an important component of their world in curing, magic, and aesthetics; and, especially, great humor and a sense of play. Vividly illustrated by a Kuna artist and accompanied by photographs that lend a sense of being present at the performances, the texts provide readers with a unique aesthetic perspective on this rich culture while preserving an endangered and valuable indigenous oral tradition.
Author : Joel Sherzer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521385138
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (851 download)
Download or read book Verbal Art in San Blas written by Joel Sherzer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book represents the complete range of verbal performances in a single Native American society.
Author : Charlotte Patera
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Mola Making written by Charlotte Patera and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indiansk applikationssyning fra Panama
Author : Paolo Fortis
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292743556
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)
Download or read book Kuna Art and Shamanism written by Paolo Fortis and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2013-01-02 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Known for their beautiful textile art, the Kuna of Panama have been scrutinized by anthropologists for decades. Perhaps surprisingly, this scrutiny has overlooked the magnificent Kuna craft of nuchukana—wooden anthropomorphic carvings—which play vital roles in curing and other Kuna rituals. Drawing on long-term fieldwork, Paolo Fortis at last brings to light this crucial cultural facet, illuminating not only Kuna aesthetics and art production but also their relation to wider social and cosmological concerns. Exploring an art form that informs birth and death, personhood, the dream world, the natural world, religion, gender roles, and ecology, Kuna Art and Shamanism provides a rich understanding of this society’s visual system, and the ways in which these groundbreaking ethnographic findings can enhance Amerindian scholarship overall. Fortis also explores the fact that to ask what it means for the Kuna people to carve the figure of a person is to pose a riddle about the culture’s complete concept of knowing. Also incorporating notions of landscape (islands, gardens, and ancient trees) as well as cycles of life, including the influence of illness, Fortis places the statues at the center of a network of social relationships that entangle people with nonhuman entities. As an activity carried out by skilled elderly men, who possess embodied knowledge of lifelong transformations, the carving process is one that mediates mortal worlds with those of immortal primordial spirits. Kuna Art and Shamanism immerses readers in this sense of unity and opposition between soul and body, internal forms and external appearances, and image and design.
Author : Lucy Davies
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
ISBN 13 : 9780500277980
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (779 download)
Download or read book Arts and Crafts of South America written by Lucy Davies and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 1994 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Lucy Davies and Mo Fini have distilled the essence of their extensive research into the creative traditions of this vast area, and also include invaluable advice. With the aid of special and often spectacular - photography, they examine all the main media: pottery, wonderfully simple and utilitarian or formed in complex and ritualistic shapes, jewelry and metalwork in a multiplicity of forms, the arts of weaving plant fibre - sombreros and panamas, bags and baskets; the ancient textile tradition of the Wayuu. Painting on clay, leather and glass; wood carving and decoration of dried gourds; and extraordinary crafts such as figuras de masapan, colourful imaginative bread dough figures."--BOOK COVER.
Author : Edith Crouch
Publisher : Schiffer Craft
ISBN 13 : 9780764338458
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (384 download)
Download or read book The Mola written by Edith Crouch and published by Schiffer Craft. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The mola is a multilayered textile art form and metaphor for the story of the Kuna, indigenous people of Panama. With over 890 images covering more than a century of molas, this book provides insights into design sources and influences for molas, perspectives on the aesthetic practices of women creating them, and hints for collecting and preserving this colorful textile art form. The hand-appliqud art panels tell the tale of the Kuna women and are symbolic of their artistry, observation, and beliefs. Their lush tropical paradise, cultural cosmology, sense of humor, and exposure to foreign elements are represented in these fascinating fabric designs. A brief history of Panama and its rich tradition of indigenous arts place the mola in context.
Author : Olga F. Linares
Publisher : Dumbarton Oaks
ISBN 13 : 9780884020691
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (26 download)
Download or read book Ecology and the Arts in Ancient Panama written by Olga F. Linares and published by Dumbarton Oaks. This book was released on 1977 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Linares reinterprets the Classic rank-societies of the central Panamanian provinces using archaeological, ecological, iconographic, ethnohistoric, and ethnographic evidence, and concludes that the art of this area used animal motifs as a metaphor for the qualities of aggression and hostility characteristic of local social and political life.
Author : Ana Luisa Sánchez Laws
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 0857452401
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (574 download)
Download or read book Panamanian Museums and Historical Memory written by Ana Luisa Sánchez Laws and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2011-05 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Panama is an ethnically diverse country with a recent history of political conflict which makes the representation of historical memory an especially complex and important task for the country’s museums. This book studies new museum projects in Panama with the aim of identifying the dominant narratives that are being formed as well as those voices that remain absent and muted. Through case analyses of specific museums and exhibitions the author identifies and examines the influences that form and shape museum strategy and development.
Author : Michael T. Taussig
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415906876
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (68 download)
Download or read book Mimesis and Alterity written by Michael T. Taussig and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Valene L. Smith
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812208013
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)
Download or read book Hosts and Guests written by Valene L. Smith and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2012-06-13 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tourism—one of the world's largest industries—has long been appreciated for its economic benefits, but in this volume tourism receives a unique systematic scrutiny as a medium for cultural exchange. Modern developments in technology and industry, together with masterful advertising, have created temporarily leisured people with the desire and the means to travel. They often in turn effect profound cultural change in the places they visit, and the contributors to this work all attend to the impact these "guests" have on their "hosts." In contrast to the dramatic economic transformations, the social repercussions of tourism are subtle and often recognized only by the indigenous peoples themselves and by the anthropologists who have studied them before and after the introduction of tourism. The case studies in Hosts and Guests examine the five types of tourism—historical, cultural, ethnic, environmental, and recreational—and their impact on diverse societies over a broad geographical range
Author : Joel Sherzer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (124 download)
Download or read book Kuna Ways of Speaking written by Joel Sherzer and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Walter Dean Myers
Publisher : Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Toussaint L'Ouverture written by Walter Dean Myers and published by Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers. This book was released on 1996 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of paintings by Jacob Lawrence chronicling the liberation of Haiti in 1804 under the leadership of General Toussaint L'Ouverture.
Author : Timothy P Banse
Publisher : Middle Coast Publishing, Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780934523134
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (231 download)
Download or read book Basic Kuna written by Timothy P Banse and published by Middle Coast Publishing, Incorporated. This book was released on 2015-11-30 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Basic Kuna/Guna - Spanish and English dictionary along with necessary Guna/English translations for common words and phrases you are most likely to encounter in the Republic of Panama's San Blas Islands.This is a good pocket beginners guide you handily can carry in your back pocket or backpack.
