Faith and Transformation
Subtitle: Votive Offerings and Amulets from the Alexander Girard Collection
Contributors: Doris Francis (Editor); Paul Smutko (Photographer)
Publisher: Museum of New Mexico Press; Museum of International Folk Art
Published: November 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 158
ISBN-13: 9780890135044
Subjects: Base metal & ironworking; Devotional theology & objects of veneration; Exhibition catalogues and specific collections; Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions - Museum; Folk & Outsider Art; Psychology of Religion; Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions - General; Spirituality - General; Art; Art & Art Instruction; Amulets; Votive offerings
Description: "Drawing on examples from the Alexander Girard Collection ... this book describes the uses of these objects by people around the world who embrace different systems of faith and follow distinct cultural and ritual practices"--Jacket.