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Dear Colleagues,
I am very pleased to announce that my book "Kuna Art and Shamanism: An Ethnographic Approach" has just been published by the University of Texas Press.
I would be really grateful if you could circulate this announcement to anybody you think might be interested in it.
For more information see: http://www.utexas.edu/utpress/books/forkun.html
With best wishes,
Paolo Fortis
Kuna Art and Shamanism: An Ethnographic Approach:
Known for their beautiful textile art, the Kuna of Panama have been scrutinized by anthropologists for decades. Perhaps surprisingly, this scrutiny has overlooked the magnificent Kuna craft of nuchukana—wooden anthropomorphic carvings—which play vital roles in curing and other Kuna rituals. Drawing on long-term fieldwork, Paolo Fortis at last brings to light this crucial cultural facet, illuminating not only Kuna aesthetics and art production but also their relation to wider social and cosmological concerns.
“Paolo Fortis carves out a new topic of study of the Kuna world that is of significance and has never been studied this way before. . . . His ethnography is excellent, and the vivid discussions of the relationship between the invisible spirit world and the visible human, animal, and plant world are particularly well done.”
—Joel Sherzer, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and Linguistics, University of Texas at Austin
“The subject matter is fascinating. . . . Beyond the field of cultural anthropology, I believe the book will be of considerable interest to cognitive psychologists, especially those specializing in theory of mind.”
—Philip D. Young, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, University of Oregon
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