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Rostros, diablos y animales : máscaras en las fiestas Centroamericanas = Faces, devils and animals : masks in the Central America festivities / Vania Solano Laclé, Johnny Cartín Quesada, Alejandro Tosatti.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextLanguage: Spanish, English Publication details: San José, Costa Rica : Fundación Museos del Banco Central : Asociación Cultural InCorpore, [2005]Description: 208 p. : col. ill., map ; 28 cmISBN:
  • 9968947695
  • 9789968947695
  • 8573163941
  • 9788573163940
Other title:
  • Faces, devils and animals : masks in the Central America festivities
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 391.434.097.28 S684r
The result of over 15 years of investigation on the subject with over 250 masks, and related costumes from Central America. The exhibition places the masks, in historical, geographic, environmental and social context. The book is the outcome of an exhaustive research by anthropologists Vania Solano Laclé, Johnny Cartín Quesada and Alejandro Tosatti who compiled a large amount of publications, photographic material, oral testimonies . They studied the collection of more than 200 masks and complementary objects from multiple regions of Central America.
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The publication is a parallel project of the exhibition by the same name held from September of 2005 to January, 2006 in Museos del Banco Central de Costa Rica.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 205).

The result of over 15 years of investigation on the subject with over 250 masks, and related costumes from Central America. The exhibition places the masks, in historical, geographic, environmental and social context. The book is the outcome of an exhaustive research by anthropologists Vania Solano Laclé, Johnny Cartín Quesada and Alejandro Tosatti who compiled a large amount of publications, photographic material, oral testimonies . They studied the collection of more than 200 masks and complementary objects from multiple regions of Central America.

Spanish and English.

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