Library Catalog
Amazon cover image
Image from Amazon.com

The Shaman’s Mirror : Visionary Art of the Huichol / Hope MacLean.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Austin : University of Texas Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©2011Description: 1 online resource (311 p.)Content type:
Media type:
Carrier type:
ISBN:
  • 9780292735439
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 299.7845
LOC classification:
  • F1221.H9 M22 2012
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources:
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- 1 The Path to the Sierra Madre -- 2 Wixárika -- 3 Kakauyari -- 4 Gifts for the Gods -- 5 Sacred Yarn Paintings -- 6 Commercialization of the Nierika -- 7 Footprints of the Founders -- 8 Making Yarn Paintings -- 9 The Colors Speak -- 10 Sacred Colors and Shamanic Vision -- 11 The Artist as Visionary -- 12 The “Deified Heart” -- 13 Arte Mágico -- 14 Shamanic Art, Global Market -- 15 The Influence of the Market -- 16 Ancient Aesthetics, Modern Images -- Notes -- Glossary of Huichol and Spanish Terms -- Bibliography -- Index
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.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number URL Status Notes Barcode
eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9780292735439

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- 1 The Path to the Sierra Madre -- 2 Wixárika -- 3 Kakauyari -- 4 Gifts for the Gods -- 5 Sacred Yarn Paintings -- 6 Commercialization of the Nierika -- 7 Footprints of the Founders -- 8 Making Yarn Paintings -- 9 The Colors Speak -- 10 Sacred Colors and Shamanic Vision -- 11 The Artist as Visionary -- 12 The “Deified Heart” -- 13 Arte Mágico -- 14 Shamanic Art, Global Market -- 15 The Influence of the Market -- 16 Ancient Aesthetics, Modern Images -- Notes -- Glossary of Huichol and Spanish Terms -- Bibliography -- Index

restricted access online access with authorization star

http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec

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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2022)