Kuna Art and Shamanism : : An Ethnographic Approach / / Paolo Fortis.
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...
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Fortis, Paolo, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Kuna Art and Shamanism : An Ethnographic Approach / Paolo Fortis. Austin : University of Texas Press, [2021] ©2013 1 online resource (271 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- NOTE ON ORTHOGRAPHY -- Introduction -- 1. Island, Gardens, and Ancient Trees -- 2. Alterity and the Populated Forest -- 3. Carving and the Transformation of Male Fertility -- 4. Amniotic Designs -- 5. From the Perspective of the Mother -- 6. Tarpa, or What Lies between Us -- 7. Images of Alterity -- 8. Sculptural Forms -- Conclusion -- NOTES -- GLOSSARY -- REFERENCES -- INDEX restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2022) Cuna Indians Religion. Cuna art. Cuna mythology. Shamanism Panama. ART / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110745344 https://doi.org/10.7560/743533 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780292743540 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780292743540/original |
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