Guatemala's Masks & Drama
Guatemala's Masks & Drama

Author: Jim Pieper

Publisher:

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13:

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Both long time devotees of the Guatemalan mask/dance culture and newcomers to the subject will be equally fascinated by this colorful and informative book. Hundreds of masks, many accompanied by contextual photographs, appear in full color and are identified in detail. The author also explains how to evaluate the age of a mask through an examination of patina and repair. Village rental agencies, calledmorarias,their walls and ceilings covered with costumes and masks, are also featured, as are masks used by life-size folk saints. Several original dance scripts have been translated, giving the reader the rare opportunity to view the relationship of the masked characters to their place in the ritual dance culture.

Masks and Masking
Masks and Masking

Author: Gary Edson

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2015-07-11

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 1476612331

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For at least 20,000 years, masking has been a mark of cultural evolution and an indication of magical-religious sophistication in society. This book provides a comprehensive understanding of the mask as a powerful cultural phenomenon--a means by which human groupings attempted to communicate their dignity and sense of purpose, as well as establish a continuum between the natural and supernatural worlds. It addresses the distinctive environments within which masks flourished, and analyzes the mask as a manifestation of art, ethnology and anthropology.

Masks of the Spirit
Masks of the Spirit

Author: Peter T. Markman

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1989-01-01

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 9780520064188

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Drawing on secondary works in archaeology, art history, folklore, ethnohistory, ethnography, and literature, the authors maintain that the mask is the central metaphor for the Mesoamerican concept of spiritual reality. Covers the long history of the use of the ritual mask by the peoples who created and developed the mythological tradition of Mesoamerica. Chapters: (1) the metaphor of the mask in Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica: the mask as the God, in ritual, and as metaphor; (II) metaphoric reflections of the cosmic order; and (III) the metaphor of the mask after the conquest: syncretism; the Pre-Columbian survivals; the syncretic compromise; and today's masks. Over 100 color and black-&-white photos.

In this Body
In this Body

Author: Servando Z. Hinojosa

Publisher: University of New Mexico Press

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 0826335233

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This account of life in one highland Maya community shows how, among Kaqchikels, spirit expresses itself fundamentally through the body, and not as something entirely separate from the body.

Guatemala in Pictures
Guatemala in Pictures

Author: Rita J. Markel

Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books

Published: 2004-01-01

Total Pages: 88

ISBN-13: 9780822519980

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Discusses the geography, history, government, people, cultural life, and economy of Guatemala.

Maya Imagery, Architecture, and Activity
Maya Imagery, Architecture, and Activity

Author: Kaylee R. Spencer

Publisher: UNM Press

Published: 2015-05-01

Total Pages: 442

ISBN-13: 0826355803

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Maya Imagery, Architecture, and Activity privileges art historical perspectives in addressing the ways the ancient Maya organized, manipulated, created, interacted with, and conceived of the world around them. The Maya provide a particularly strong example of the ways in which the built and imaged environment are intentionally oriented relative to political, religious, economic, and other spatial constructs. In examining space, the contributors of this volume demonstrate the core interrelationships inherent in a wide variety of places and spaces, both concrete and abstract. They explore the links between spatial order and cosmic order and the possibility that such connections have sociopolitical consequences. This book will prove useful not just to Mayanists but to art historians in other fields and scholars from a variety of disciplines, including anthropology, archaeology, geography, and landscape architecture.