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Book Synopsis
This comprehensive study of one of the world’s great indigenous arts explores issues surrounding dreams and visions, ranging from what shamanic vision is to how artists use vision and how they perceive the soul in relation to their art.

Table of Contents
  • Foreword by Peter T. Furst
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. The Path to the Sierra Madre
  • 2. Wixárika: Children of the Ancestor Gods
  • 3. Kakauyari: The Gods and the Land Are Alive
  • 4. Gifts for the Gods
  • 5. Sacred Yarn Paintings
  • 6. Commercialization of the Nierika
  • 7. Footprints of the Founders
  • 8. Making Yarn Paintings
  • 9. The Colors Speak
  • 10. Sacred Colors and Shamanic Vision
  • 11. The Artist as Visionary
  • 12. The "Deified Heart": Huichol Soul Concepts and Shamanic Art
  • 13. Arte Mágico: Magical Power in Yarn Paintings
  • 14. Shamanic Art, Global Market
  • 15. The Influence of the Market
  • 16. Ancient Aesthetics, Modern Images
  • Notes
  • Glossary of Huichol and Spanish Terms
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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      Publisher: University of Texas Press
      Publication Date: 01/01/2012
      ISBN13: 9780292728769, 978-0292728769
      ISBN10: 029272876X
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      History of art Social and cultural anthropology

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This comprehensive study of one of the world’s great indigenous arts explores issues surrounding dreams and visions, ranging from what shamanic vision is to how artists use vision and how they perceive the soul in relation to their art.

      Table of Contents
      • Foreword by Peter T. Furst
      • Acknowledgments
      • 1. The Path to the Sierra Madre
      • 2. Wixárika: Children of the Ancestor Gods
      • 3. Kakauyari: The Gods and the Land Are Alive
      • 4. Gifts for the Gods
      • 5. Sacred Yarn Paintings
      • 6. Commercialization of the Nierika
      • 7. Footprints of the Founders
      • 8. Making Yarn Paintings
      • 9. The Colors Speak
      • 10. Sacred Colors and Shamanic Vision
      • 11. The Artist as Visionary
      • 12. The "Deified Heart": Huichol Soul Concepts and Shamanic Art
      • 13. Arte Mágico: Magical Power in Yarn Paintings
      • 14. Shamanic Art, Global Market
      • 15. The Influence of the Market
      • 16. Ancient Aesthetics, Modern Images
      • Notes
      • Glossary of Huichol and Spanish Terms
      • Bibliography
      • Index

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