Title: The power of symbols :
Authors: Crumrine, N. Ross; Halpin, Marjorie M.,; International Congress of Americanists
Date: 1983
Publisher: University of British Columbia Press,
Physical description: 244 pages, 30 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language: English
LC class: E
Contents: Masks, participants, and audience / N. Ross Crumrine -- The many faces of masks and masking : discussion / Elisabeth Tooker -- Labrador Nalujuk : the transformation of an Aboriginal Inuit ritual complex in a post-contact setting / Barnett Richling -- Naskapi trance : counterbalance to the mask / Lucy W. Turner -- Seneca masks / William C. Sturtevant -- Cherokee Booger mask tradition / Raymond D. Fogelson and Amelia R. Bell -- Analogic causality and the power of masks / Stanley Walens -- The mask and magic of the Yaqui paskola clowns / Steven V. Lutes -- Mask use and meaning in Easter ceremonialism : the Mayo Parisero / N. Ross Crumrine -- Symbolic representation in Mexican combat plays / Frances Gillmor -- The meaning of masking in San Pedro Chenalho / Victoria R. Bricker -- Tarascan masks of women as agents of social control / Janet Brody Esser -- The devil mask : a contemporary variant of Andean iconography in Oruro / Guillermo Delgado-P. -- Masks in the Incaic solstice and equinoctial rituals / R.T. Zuidema -- Being an essence : totemic representation among the eastern Bororo / J. Christopher Crocker -- Masks and masquerades in Venezuela / Angelina Pollak-Eltz -- The mask and the violation of taboo / Laura Makarius -- Masks : a re-examination, or "Masks? You mean they affect the brain?" / Mark Webber, Christopher Stephens, and Charles Laughlin, Jr. -- The mask of tradition / Marjorie Halpin.
Notes: Papers originally presented at a symposium held at the 43rd International Congress of Americanists.