Images of person in an Amerindian society. An ethnographic account of Kuna woodcarving

Images of person in an Amerindian society. An ethnographic account of Kuna woodcarving. The long debated problem of representation in Amerindian art discussed by Boas, Kroeber and Lévi-Strauss is reconsidered in this article through an ethnographic account of Kuna woodcarving. By analysing the makin...

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Main Author: Paolo Fortis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Société des américanistes 2012-07-01
Series:Journal de la Société des Américanistes
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/jsa/12119

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