To Weave and Sing: Art, Symbol, and Narrative in the South American Rainforest
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| Rating | : | 4.65 (655 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0520071859 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 288 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-02-17 |
| Language | : | English |
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thank you Erin C. Biles I got this book two days after I ordered it, and it was in great condition.
He demonstrates that the symbols woven into the baskets function not in isolation but collectively, as a powerful system cutting across the entire culture.To Weave and Sing addresses all Yekuana material culture and the greater reality it both incorporates and masks, discerning a unifying configuration of symbols in chapters on architectural forms, the geography of the body, and the use of herbs, face paints, and chants. Within their homeland of Ihuruna, the Yekuana have succeeded in maintaining the integrity and unity of their culture, resisting the devastating effects of acculturation that have befallen so many neighboring groups. Yet their success must be attributed to more than natural barriers of rapids and waterfalls, to more than lack of "contact" with our "modern" world. What we are offered here is a new Poetics of Culture, ethnography not as a static given but as a series of shifting fields, wherein culture (and our image of it) is constantly recreated in all of its parts, by all of its members.. Guss argues that the problem of understanding Yekuana basketry is the problem of understanding all traditional art forms within a tribal context, and critiques the cultural assu
I would call this a seminal and path-breaking work, one of the most stimulating and significant in many a year on South American Indian culture."—Peter T. Furst, University of Pennsylvania Museum. Lippard, author of Pop Art and Overlay: Contemporary Art and the Art of Prehistory"In David Guss's To Weave and Sing, the core of the world's most cryptic cultural region takes form and shines by its own light."—Roy Wagner, University of Virginia"Guss takes us a good way into the sacred ideology of the Yekuana