Masks, Transformation, and Paradox
ISBN-13:
9780520045323
ISBN-10:
0520045327
Author:
A. David Napier
Publication date:
1986
Publisher:
Univ of California Pr
Format:
Hardcover
282 pages
Category:
Anthropology
,
Behavioral Sciences
,
Anthropology
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ISBN-13:
9780520045323
ISBN-10:
0520045327
Author:
A. David Napier
Publication date:
1986
Publisher:
Univ of California Pr
Format:
Hardcover
282 pages
Category:
Anthropology
,
Behavioral Sciences
,
Anthropology
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Masks, Transformation, and Paradox (ISBN-13: 9780520045323 and ISBN-10: 0520045327), written by authors
A. David Napier, was published by Univ of California Pr in 1986.
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Masks are found world-wide in connection with seasonal festivals, rites of passage, and curative ceremonies. They provide a means of investigating the paradoxical problems that appearances pose in the experience of transitional states. In this far-reaching work, A. David Napier studies mask iconography and the role played by masks in the realization of change. The masks of preclassical Greece¯in particular those of the Satyr and the Gorgon¯provide his starting point. A comparison of Greek to Eastern and especially Indian models follows, and the book concludes with an examination of the interpretation of Hindu ideas in Bali that demonstrates the importance of ambivalence in mask iconography.
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