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  The Way of the Masks Claude Levi-Strauss
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Make/Author/Artist: Claude Levi-Strauss
Details: Soft Cover

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Product Code: WYMASKS

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The colorful Swaihwe tribal masks of coastal British Columbia are a formidable yet puzzling sight with their gaping mouths, incongruously placed bird heads, enormous tongues protruding from flabby lower jaws and demonic style...

The noted French structural anthropologist explains the masks' features with reference to kinship ties, incest prohibitions and myths.

In elegant fashion he then contrasts Swaihwe masks with those of other coastal peoples of British Columbia and Alaska. Masks' identifying traits are viewed as part of a dialogue conducted by neighboring tribes for generations.

This exploration of what the author perceives as collective mind will appeal to students of both art and anthropology with its 70 striking illustrations of the enigmatic masks.

CONDITION: softcover, with light overall use, 249 pages

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