Rostros, diablos y animales
Subtitle: máscaras en las fiestas Centroamericanas = Faces, devils and animals : masks in the Central America festivities
By: Vania Solano Laclé, Johnny Cartín Quesada, Alejandro Tosatti
Contributors: Cartín Quesada, Johnny; Tosatti, Alessandro; Banco Central de Costa Rica. Museos
Publisher: Fundación Museos del Banco Central; Asociación Cultural InCorpore
Published: 2005
Place of publication: San José, Costa Rica
Language: spa
Number of pages: 208
Subjects: Indian masks; Festivals; Indians of Central America; Clothing; Indian dance; Social life and customs
Other titles: Faces, devils and animals : masks in the Central America festivities
Description: The result of over 15 years of investigation on the subject with over 250 masks, and related costumes from Central America. The exhibition places the masks, in historical, geographic, environmental and social context. The book is the outcome of an exhaustive research by anthropologists Vania Solano Laclé, Johnny Cartín Quesada and Alejandro Tosatti who compiled a large amount of publications, photographic material, oral testimonies . They studied the collection of more than 200 masks and complementary objects from multiple regions of Central America.
Notes: The publication is a parallel project of the exhibition by the same name held from September of 2005 to January, 2006 in Museos del Banco Central de Costa Rica.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 205).

Spanish and English.