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The art of being Kuna : layers of meaning among the Kuna of Panama / Mari Lyn Salvador, editor.
- Title
- The art of being Kuna : layers of meaning among the Kuna of Panama / Mari Lyn Salvador, editor.
- Author
- Salvador, Mari Lyn.
- Publication
- Los Angeles, Calif. : UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, 1997.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | F1565.2.C8 S23 1997 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- University of California, Los Angeles. Fowler Museum of Cultural History.
- Description
- 353 p., [7] p. of plates : ill. (chiefly col.), 1 map; 31 cm.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Exhibition catalogs
- Note
- Publication is also an exhibition catalog.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Artful lives: the Kuna of Panama/Mari Lyn Salvador and James Howe -- Baba's creations: flora and fauna of Kuna yala/Jorge Ventocilla : The artfulness of everyday life/Mari Lyn Salvador -- The Kuna and the world: five centuries of struggle/James Howe -- Kuna language and literature/Joel Sherzer -- The gathering house: heart of a Kuna community/James Howe : The Juna portray their own revolutionary history/Jame Howe -- Looking back: contemporary Kuna women's arts/Mari Lyn Salvador : The spirit of the flute/Mari Lyn Salvador -- The world of spirit, disease, and curing/Mac Chapin -- Kuna picture-writing: a study in iconography and memory/Carlo Severi -- The fiesta of San Jose of Nargana: Symbolic syncretism and persistence among the San Blas Kuna/Alexander Moore : Puberty ceremonies/James Howe -- The musical ars of the Kuna/Sandra Smith -- Kuna migration into urban areas/Marta Lucia de Gerdes.
- ISBN
- 0930741609
- 0930741617 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^^97036368^
- OCLC
- 37615798
- SCSB-12780100
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library