Book Description
A deeply observant extended homage to orchard farmer Evelyn Curtis Losack and her village of Corrales, New Mexico.
Author : Melissa S. Powell
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 36,91 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Huichol art
ISBN : 9780890135631
A deeply observant extended homage to orchard farmer Evelyn Curtis Losack and her village of Corrales, New Mexico.
Author : Stacy B. Schaefer
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 33,29 MB
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 9780826319050
The first substantial study of a Mexican Indian society that more than any other has preserved much of its ancient way of life and religion.
Author : James Endredy
Publisher : Bear Cub Books
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 32,91 MB
Release : 2003-10-31
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781591430162
A contemporary adaptation of an indigenous Huichol teaching tale, illustrated with traditional yarn drawings by Huichol artisans • Shares the hidden treasures of a nature-based indigenous culture • A teaching tool for multicultural studies for children ages 6 to 9 • Explains who the Huichol people are and the symbolism of the images used by the artists The Huichol Indians live in the remote regions of the Sierra Madre Mountains of western Mexico, where geographic isolation has allowed them to retain their culture and spiritual traditions in the face of colonization. Their nature-based way of life makes no distinction between the sacred and the secular, and they express their reverence for the powers of the earth by regarding all elements in nature as family. The Journey of Tunuri and the Blue Deer is a modern adaptation of a traditional Huichol story depicting a young child finding his (or her) personal task in life by connecting with the powers of nature. The story is told through the experiences of young Tunuri, who becomes lost in the woods. He meets the magical Blue Deer--a messenger between the worlds of mortals and deities--who introduces Tunuri to Father Sun, Mother Earth, and others in the natural world, while leading him back to his human family. Through this lovely tale and the vivid illustrations done in the medium of traditional Huichol yarn drawings, children can learn about their place in the sacred web of life.
Author : Peter T. Furst
Publisher : UPenn Museum of Archaeology
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 41,35 MB
Release : 2007-01-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781931707978
The brilliant visionary yarn paintings of the shaman-artist Jose Benitez Sanchez emerge transformed into two-dimensional form from fleeting, sublime visionary experiences triggered by the complex chemistry of the divine peyote cactus. Benitez's visions are of the Huichol universe in Mexico's rugged Sierra Madre Occidental, as that world came into being in the First Times of creation and transformation and in the ongoing magic of a natural environment that is alive and without firm boundaries between the here and now and the ancestral past. Modern yarn paintings—more than 30 in the University of Pennsylvania Museum's collection are illustrated here—have their roots in the sacred art of communication with numberless male and female ancestors and native deities, related in the two remarkable Huichol origin myths also presented here to shed some light on Native American culture and provide some understanding of the religious experience that informs it.
Author : Barbara G. Myerhoff
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 37,45 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Huichol Indians
ISBN : 9780801491375
"Ramón Medina Silva, a Huichol Indian shaman priest or mara'akame, instructed me in many of his culture's myths, rituals, and symbols, particularly those pertaining to the sacred untiy of deer, maize, and peyote. The significance of this constellation of symbols was revealed to me most vividly when I accompanied Ramón on the Huichol's annual ritual return to hunt the peyote in the sacred land of Wirikuta, in myth and probably in history the place from which the Ancient Ones (ancestors and deities of the present-day Indians) came before settling in their present home in the mountains of the Sierra Madre Occidental in north-central Mexico. My work with Ramón preceded and followed our journey, but it was this peyote hunt that held the key to, and constituted the climax of, his teachings."--from the Preface
Author : Carl Lumholtz
Publisher :
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 10,85 MB
Release : 1902
Category : Indians of Mexico
ISBN :
Author : Jay Courtney Fikes
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 20,78 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 0759120269
The culmination of 34 years of ethnographic fieldwork and archival research, this book offers ground-breaking insights into fundamental principles of Huichol shamanism and ritual. The scope and length of Fikes's research, combined with the depth of his participation with four Huichol shamans, enable him to convey with empathy details of shamanic initiation, methods for diagnosis and treatment of illness, and motives for performing funeral, deer and peyote hunting, and maize-cultivating rituals.
Author : Kathleen Berrin
Publisher :
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 33,70 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Huichol Indians
ISBN :
Author : Cynthia Freeland
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 49,78 MB
Release : 2003-02-13
Category : Art
ISBN : 0191579327
In today's art world many strange, even shocking, things qualify as art. In this Very Short Introduction Cynthia Freeland explains why innovation and controversy are valued in the arts, weaving together philosophy and art theory with many fascinating examples. She discusses blood, beauty, culture, money, museums, sex, and politics, clarifying contemporary and historical accounts of the nature, function, and interpretation of the arts. Freeland also propels us into the future by surveying cutting-edge web sites, alongside the latest research on the brain's role in perceiving art. This clear, provocative book engages with the big debates surrounding our responses to art and is an invaluable introduction to anyone interested in thinking about art. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
Author : Carolyn E. Boyd
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 19,44 MB
Release : 2016-11-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1477310304
Folded plate (1 leaf, 39 x 61 cm, folded to 19 x 16 cm) in pocket.