Masks Of The Spirit: Image And Metaphor In Mesoamerica by Roberta H. Markman, Peter T. Markman and Joseph Campbell
4to. pp. xxi, 254. 16 pages of colour illustrations & b/w text illustrations. bibliography. index. paperback. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994.
First Paperback Edition.
New.
ISBN-10: 0520086546 / ISBN-13: 9780520086548
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Drawing on secondary works in archaeology, art history, folklore, ethnohistory, ethnography, and literature, the authors maintain that the mask is the central metaphor for the Mesoamerican concept of spiritual reality. Covers the long history of the use of the ritual mask by the peoples who created and developed the mythological tradition of Mesoamerica.