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Faith & Transformation - Votive Offerings & Amulets from the Alexander Girard Collection (Paperback)
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Faith & Transformation - Votive Offerings & Amulets from the Alexander Girard Collection (Paperback)
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Amulets are objects of supranormal potency that safeguard the
wearer during critical periods of life passage and transformation.
Ex-votos, small metal objects often in the shapes of human figures
or specific parts of the body, are presented as gifts to
supernatural beings in thankful reciprocation for favours received.
Drawing on examples from the Alexander Girard Collection at the
Museum of International Folk Art in Santa Fe, this book describes
the actual uses and ritual of the objects by people around the
world who embrace different systems of faith and follow distinct
cultural and ritual practices. The contributors, comprising an
international group of historians, curators, folklorists, and
anthropologists, focus on select pieces collected from Mexico,
Guatemala, Puerto Rico, Brazil, Peru and Bolivia; Spain and Italy;
Byzantium, Greece, and Poland; Morocco, Senegal, Ghana, Ethiopia;
Egypt, Lebanon and Syria, Turkey, Iran; Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka,
Burma, and Japan.
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