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Keeper of the rain forest, Mentawai shaman : man, nature, and spirits in remote Indonesia / photographs and journals by Charles Lindsay ; historical essay by Reimar Schefold.
- Title
- Keeper of the rain forest, Mentawai shaman : man, nature, and spirits in remote Indonesia / photographs and journals by Charles Lindsay ; historical essay by Reimar Schefold.
- Author
- Lindsay, Charles.
- Publication
- New York : Aperture, c1992.
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| Text | Request in advance | OC.IND. L 644 m | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Schefold, Reimar, 1938-
- Description
- 117 p. : chiefly ill. (some col.), maps; 31 cm.
- Summary
- A color portfolio of more than eighty photographs detailing Lindsay's personal interaction with Aman Lau Lau Manai and the community in which he plays a central role, including seldom-observed rituals of tattooing, teeth chiseling, rites of healing and mourning, animal sacrifice, frenetic dance, and trance.
- Alternative Title
- Mentawai shaman.
- Subject
- Manai, Aman Lau Lau
- Lindsay, Charles > Journeys > Mentawai Islands
- Lindsay, Charles
- Mentawai (Indonesian people)
- Mentawai (Indonesian people) > Pictorial works
- Shamans > Mentawai Islands
- Shamans > Mentawai Islands > Pictorial works
- Documentary photography > Mentawai Islands
- Mentawai (Indonesian people) > Social life and customs
- Shamans > Siberut
- Mentawai Islands (Indonesia) > Social life and customs
- Siberut (Indonesia) > Pictorial works
- Genre/Form
- Pictorial works
- Note
- Spine title: Mentawai shaman.
- "An Aperture book"
- Maps on lining papers.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- ISBN
- 0893815209
- LCCN
- ^^^92071039^
- OCLC
- 27258143
- SCSB-13429633
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library