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Making Faces : Self and Image Creation in a Himalayan Valley /
Taberam Soni, Labh Singh, Amar Singh, and other artists live and work in the hill-villages of the lower Himalayas in Himachal Pradesh, India. There, they fashion face-images of deities out of thin sheets of precious metal. This book tells the story of these god-makers, the gods they make, and the co...
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Honolulu :
University of Hawaiʻi Press,
[2013]
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| Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
| Résumé: | Taberam Soni, Labh Singh, Amar Singh, and other artists live and work in the hill-villages of the lower Himalayas in Himachal Pradesh, India. There, they fashion face-images of deities out of thin sheets of precious metal. This book tells the story of these god-makers, the gods they make, and the communities that participate in the creative process and its accompanying rituals. |
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| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource. |
| ISBN: | 9780824837242 |