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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. Exploring an art form that informs birth and death, personhood, the dream world, the natural world, religion, gender roles, and ecology, Kuna Art and Shamanism provides a rich understanding of this society’s visual system, and the ways in which these groundbreaking ethnographic findings can enhance Amerindian scholarship overall. Fortis also explores the fact that to ask what it means for the Kuna people to carve the figure of a person is to pose a riddle about the culture’s complete concept of knowing. Also incorporating notions of landscape (islands, gardens, and ancient trees) as well as cycles of life, including the influence of illness, Fortis places the statues at the center of a network of social relationships that entangle people with nonhuman entities. As an activity carried out by skilled elderly men, who possess embodied knowledge of lifelong transformations, the carving process is one that mediates mortal worlds with those of immortal primordial spirits. Kuna Art and Shamanism immerses readers in this sense of unity and opposition between soul and body, internal forms and external appearances, and image and design.

Cuna art. --- Cuna Indians --- Cuna mythology. --- Shamanism --- Religion.

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This book, based on original research, explores the origin of the mola in the early twentieth century, how it became part of the everyday dress of Kuna women, and its role in creating Kuna identity.

Cuna Indians --- Molas. --- Dule Indians --- Guna Indians --- Kuna Indians --- San Blas Cuna Indians --- San Blas Kuna Indians --- San Blas Indians --- Tule Indians --- Indians of Central America --- Cueva Indians --- Cuna art --- Wall hangings --- Ethnic identity. --- Clothing.

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"An informative analysis of craft production among the Kuna. Tice combines rich ethnographic detail and a description of mola production with an analysis of the impact of global market forces, tourism, and state programs (including the development of craft cooperatives) on local culture"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.

Cuna Indians --- Cuna textile fabrics. --- Molas --- Textile cooperatives --- Women in cooperative societies --- Industries. --- Economic conditions. --- San Blas Coast (Panama) --- Social conditions. --- Cooperative societies --- Cuna art --- Wall hangings --- Dule Indians --- Guna Indians --- Kuna Indians --- San Blas Cuna Indians --- San Blas Kuna Indians --- San Blas Indians --- Tule Indians --- Indians of Central America --- Cueva Indians --- Textile fabrics, Cuna --- Textile fabrics --- Textile industry and fabrics

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Molas. --- Cuna art. --- Clothing and dress --- Molas --- Art cuna --- Vêtement --- Museum für Völkerkunde (Berlin, Germany) --- Museum für Völkerkunde (Berlin, Allemagne) --- Catalogs. --- Catalogues --- Cuna Indians --- Clothing. --- Vêtement --- Museum für Völkerkunde (Berlin, Germany) --- Museum für Völkerkunde (Berlin, Allemagne) --- Cuna art --- Wall hangings --- Dule Indians --- Guna Indians --- Kuna Indians --- San Blas Cuna Indians --- San Blas Kuna Indians --- San Blas Indians --- Tule Indians --- Indians of Central America --- Cueva Indians --- Art, Cuna --- Art, Panamanian --- Clothing --- Catalogs --- Art --- Königliche Museen zu Berlin. --- Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (Germany). --- Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz. --- Staatliche Museen zu Berlin--Preussischer Kulturbesitz. --- Berlin Ethnographical Museum --- Berlin Ethnographic Museum --- SMB-PK Museum für Völkerkunde --- Museum Europäischer Kulturen (Berlin, Germany) --- Königliches Museum für Völkerkunde zu Berlin --- Ethnologisches Museum Berlin