Masks, Transformation, and Paradox
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A01=A.David Napier
ancient history
anthropologists
anthropology
appearances
Author_A.David Napier
bali
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change
costume
cultural anthropology
cultural history
curative ceremonies
eastern masks
eastern religions
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festivals
gorgon
hinduism
iconography
indian masks
mask iconography
masks
modern masks
nonfiction
paradoxical problems
preclassical greece
religious masks
rites of passage
satyr
seasonal celebrations
symbolism
transformation
transformative
transitional states
worldwide phenomenon
Product details
- ISBN 9780520045330
- Weight: 499g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 27 Oct 1987
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
