The Way of the Masks
by Levi-Strauss, Claude
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0295959290
- ISBN 13
- 9780295959290
- Seller
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About This Item
Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1982. 1st US. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Hardcover in a lightly worn, chipped dust jacket. 249 pages, b&w photos. The book is almost entirely about trying to understand the deep meaning of the unusual-looking Sxwayxwey* mask of the Coast Salish, by referring to the origin myths, dances and costumes associated with it. A large part of the book attempts to clarify this by contrasting and comparing it with the Tsonoqua mask which is associated with several tribal groups from various parts of coastal British Columbia. He weaves a huge matrix of elements of the masks, the dance costumes, the dances, the origin myths, related myths, and only kind-of-sort-of related myths. Clean copy. Record # 382723
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 382723
- Title
- The Way of the Masks
- Author
- Levi-Strauss, Claude
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- 1st US
- ISBN 10
- 0295959290
- ISBN 13
- 9780295959290
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press
- Place of Publication
- Seattle
- Date Published
- 1982
- Keywords
- Social Sciences, Anthropology, , .
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