Author: Robin D. Tribhuwan
Publisher: Discovery Publishing House
ISBN: 9788171416363
Category : Ethnic costume
Languages : en
Pages : 118

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Man has made use of masks in dance rituals, dramas, folk songs, temples and different Socio-Cultural contexts. In South India Masks are Worn by Kathakali Dancers, to depict good and evil characters from Hindu epics. Masks find an important place in Hindu festival celebration such as Dasera, Durga Puja and Ram Navami. Tribal societies in India too use have Mask characters. Some of the tribes using masks are Bhils, Garasia, Bison Horn Madia, Santhals, Oraons etc. However, there is only one tribal town in India, that depicts 54 tribal mask characters. This town is known as Jawhar, from Thane district, in the state of Maharashtra. These 54 characters are taken in a Procession during a Mask Festival called Bohada . The festival of Bohata is popular among the Koknas, Thakars, Mahadev Kolis, Malhar Kolis, Dhor Kolis, Katkaris, Warlis and few caste groups of Thane and Nasik District. Contents: Concept and Definitions of Masks, Research Methodology, Tribal Village, People and Mask Makers, Bohada: The Mask Festival of Bharsatmet, Bohada: The Mask Festival of Bharsatmet, Bohada: As Interpreted by the Non-tribals, Summary and Conclusions.

Author: Christine Stelzig
Publisher: Prestel Junior
ISBN: 9783791318745
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Describes different types of ceremonial African masks, how and why they are made, and how they reflect the culture of their ethnic groups.

Author: Ladislas Segy
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486231815
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 264

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Pictures grotesques, masks, and headdresses of various African tribes as well as exploring the psychological and ideological meaning, and ritual function of masks

Author: Claude Lévi-Strauss
Publisher: UBC Press
ISBN: 9780774807616
Category : Indian masks
Languages : en
Pages : 249

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Originally published under the title La Voie des masques, Sylvia Modelski has translated Claude Levi-Strauss' explanation of the tribal masks of coastal British Columbia with reference to kinship ties, incest prohibition and myths.

Author: Nancy Lyn Rudolph
Publisher: Sterling Publishing (NY)
ISBN: 9780806943831
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 84

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A collection of seventeen animal stories from the tribes of the North Pacific coast, plateau, and California regions with directions for creating a mask of each animal.

Author: Gary Edson
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476612331
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 268

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For at least 20,000 years, masking has been a mark of cultural evolution and an indication of magical-religious sophistication in society. This book provides a comprehensive understanding of the mask as a powerful cultural phenomenon--a means by which human groupings attempted to communicate their dignity and sense of purpose, as well as establish a continuum between the natural and supernatural worlds. It addresses the distinctive environments within which masks flourished, and analyzes the mask as a manifestation of art, ethnology and anthropology.

Author: Kathleen O'Neal Gear
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0312858574
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 580

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The archaeologists/authors continue to entertain an avid international audience with their rousing historical epic of adventure, triumph, and heartbreak of the pre-Columbian peoples who struggled to make this great continent their home.

Author: Iris Hahner-Herzog
Publisher: Prestel Publishing
ISBN: 9783791338071
Category : Art, African
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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African Masks surveys 248 of the finest examples of masks from the Barbier-Mueller Collection, of which 100 are reproduced in stunning color illustrations. Leading scholars on African art describe the masks' historical and religious functions, and their symbolic significance.

Author: Sandy Hummingbird
Publisher: Book Publishing Company (TN)
ISBN: 9781570671319
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Long ago Cherokee dancers would dance, and through dancing tell stories about the tribe. The wrapped themselves in colorful blankets and wore masks to represent people, feelings, and animals that shared their world. The masks had exaggerated features such as extra-long noses, big bushy eyebrows, or horns to represent characters in the stories. The most popular Cherokee masks are represented here for children to color and do lessons in matching, mazes, completing sentences, connecting dots, counting, spelling, and more. For children age 5-8 years.

Author: Janet Rupert
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595351611
Category : Nigeria
Languages : en
Pages : 147

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Twelve-year-old Layo, a Yoruba girl living in the area of eleventh-century Africa which is now Nigeria, attempts to reject the man who has been chosen to be her husband.