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The Shaman’s Mirror - Visionary Art of the Huichol (Hardcover)
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The Shaman’s Mirror - Visionary Art of the Huichol (Hardcover)
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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.
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