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• Title:The shaman's mirror : visionary art of the Huichol / Hope MacLean ; foreword by Peter T. Furst.
  
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• Author/Creator:MacLean, Hope, 1949-
  
• Published/Created:Austin : University of Texas Press, ©2012.
  

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  • Location:MAA LIBRARY (IKB) stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: F1221.H9 M22 2012
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    
  • Links:Donor bookplate
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Huichol art.
  Huichol textile fabrics.
  Huichol mythology.
  Art, Shamanistic.
  Hallucinogenic drugs and religious experience.
  Symbolism in art.
  
• Edition:1st. ed.
  
• Description:xii, 284 p., [16] p. of col. plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
  
• Summary:"Huichol Indian yarn paintings are one of the world's great indigenous arts, sold around the world and advertised as authentic records of dreams and visions of the shamans. Using glowing colored yarns, the Huichol Indians of Mexico paint the mystical symbols of their culture--the hallucinogenic peyote cactus, the blue deer-spirit who appears to the shamans as they croon their songs around the fire in all-night ceremonies deep in the Sierra Madre mountains, and the pilgrimages to sacred sites, high in the central Mexican desert of Wirikuta. Hope MacLean provides the first comprehensive study of Huichol yarn paintings, from their origins as sacred offerings to their transformation into commercial art. Drawing on twenty years of ethnographic fieldwork, she interviews Huichol artists who have innovated important themes and styles. She compares the artists' views with those of art dealers and government officials to show how yarn painters respond to market influences while still keeping their religious beliefs. Most innovative is her exploration of what it means to say a tourist art is based on dreams and visions of the shamans. She explains what visionary experience means in Huichol culture and discusses the influence of the hallucinogenic peyote cactus on the Huichol's remarkable use of color. She uncovers a deep structure of visionary experience, rooted in Huichol concepts of soul-energy, and shows how this remarkable conception may be linked to visionary experiences as described by other Uto-Aztecan and Meso-American cultures."--Publisher.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-274) and index.
  
• ISBN:9780292728769 (cloth : alk. paper)
  029272876X (cloth : alk. paper)
  9780292735439 (e-book)
  029273543X (e-book)
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: 1. Path to the Sierra Madre
  2. Wixarika | Children of the Ancestor Gods
  3. Kakauyari | The Gods and the Land Are Alive
  4. Gifts for the Gods
  5. Sacred Yarn Paintings
  6. Commercialization ofthe Nierika
  7. Footprints ofthe Founders
  8. Making Yarn Paintings
  9. Colors Speak
  10. Sacred Colors and Shamanic Vision
  11. Artist as Visionary
  12. "Deified Heart" | Huichol Soul Concepts and Shamanic Art
  13. Arte Magico | Magical Power in Yarn Paintings
  14. Shamanic Art, Global Market
  15. Influence of the Market
  16. Ancient Aesthetics, Modern Images.