Mark Gordon
Updated January, 1006
HORNED FESTIVAL MASKS OF THE
Bibliography
{Note: The greater portion of this
bibliography was compiled years ago. If you can suggest a text or article for
inclusion, please send it--with complete bibliographic information and a brief
note of annotation—to mgordon@barton.edu
. This list will be updated
periodically. Thank you! Mark Gordon}
The categories into which each reference has
been placed are for the sake of convenience only, and are not meant to define
conceptual divisions in the field.
At present, few Internet links are included.
Please send suggestions for a future update.
I.
HISTORICAL
ORIGINS
Achivos Venezolanos de
Folklore, No. 8.
Alegría, R. La Fiesta de
Aretz, I, Manual
de Folklore Venezolano
Arewa, O. and Shreve, G.M. The Genesis of Structures in African Narrative: Zande
Trickster Tales.
Caro Baroja, J. El Carnaval: Analisis Histórico-Cultural.
Boyke, R. “Parties, Politics, Pan and Peter” in
Cardona, M. Temas de Folklore Venezolano.
Cassa, R. Los
Taínos de la Española.
Comas, J. Principales Aportaciones Indígenas Precolombinas a la Cultura Universal.
Dominguez, L. Encuentro con Nuestro Folklore.
Foster, G. Culture and Conquest:
Fuentes,
C., and Hernandez, D. “Corpus Cristi, San Francisco
de Yare” in Armitano Arte No. 5.
Gonzalez, M. “Los Diablos Danzantes de Turiamo” [Master’s thesis for Department of Anthropology,
Universidad Central de Venezuela]
Grathoff, R.H. The Structure of Social Inconsistencies.
Hastrup, K. “The Post-Structuralist
Position of Social Anthropology” in Schwimmer, E (ed) The Yearbook of
Symbolic Anthropology.
Herskovitz, M. People and Cultures of the
Izquierdo Moya, J. “Cofradías Tipicas en Pedronera” in Revista
de Dialectología y Tradición
Popular, 1946
Jimenez, N.A. Relaciones Políticas en una Sociedad Tribal: Estudio de los Ye’cuana, Indígenas
Lizardo, F. Danzas y Bailes Folklóricos Dominicanos.
Loven, S. Origins of
Manning, F.E.
“Carnival in
Messenger, J.
“African Retentions in Monserrat” in African Arts, 1973
Mintz, S. and Price, R.
An Anthropological Approach to the
Afro-American Past: A
Olivares Figueroa, R. “Particularidades y Evolución
Otten, C. (ed.) Anthropology and Art:
Ottenberg, S. Masked
Rituals of Afikpo: The Context of an African Art.
Salazar, R. Diablos Danzantes de
Tejeda, D., Diez,
Turner, V. (ed.) Celebration: Studies in Festivity and
Ritual.
Utrera, C.
II. TECHNIQUE
AND THE ROLE OF CRAFTS IN SOCIETY
Biebuyck, D. (ed.) Tradition and
Creativity in Tribal Art.
Cordry, D. Mexican
Masks.
D’Azevedo, W.L. (ed.) The Traditional Artist in African Societies.
Himmelheber, H. “Personality and Technique of African
Sculptors” in Mead, M. Technique and
Personality.
Miller, R. “The
Mask-Makers of Tocuaro” in Bulletin of the American Society of
Polakoff, C. “Crafts and the Concept of Art in
Silver, H. “The
Mind’s Eye: Art and Aesthetics in an African Craft Community.” Stanford: PHD
Thesis, 1976
Vidal, T. Las Caretas de Cartón
de Carnaval de Ponce.
III. SOCIETAL FUNCTION AND
SEMIOTICS
Abrahams,
R.D. “Toward an Enactment-Centered Theory of Folklore” in Bascom,
W. Frontiers of Folkore.
Anozie, S. “The Poetics of the Mask” in Structural Models and African Poetics:
Towards a Pragmatic Theory of Literature.
Babcock, B. “Signs
about Signs: The Semiotics of Self-reference” in Semiotica, 1980, 30 (1|2)
Bettelheim, J. “The Afro-Jamaican Jonkonnu
Festival: Playing the Forces and Operating the Cloth.” Yale: PHD Thesis, 1979
Clemmer, R.O. “Truth, Duty and and
the Revitalization of Anthroplogists: A New
Perspective on Cultural Change and Resistance,” in Hymes,
D (ed) Reinventing
Anthropology.
Crocker, J.
“Ceremonial Masks” in Turner, V. (ed.) Celebration:
Studies in Festivity.
Davis, M. Voces del Purgatorio: Estudio de la Salve Dominicana.
Getzels, J. The
Creative Vision: A Longitudinal Study of Problem-Finding in Art.
Handelman, D. “Plan and Ritual: Complementary Frames
of Meta-Communication” in Chapman, A.J. and Foot, H.C. (eds) It’s a
Funny Thing, Humour.
Harley, G. Masks as Agents of Social Control in
Hawkes, T. Structuralism and Semiotics.
Kelly, M. “Las Fiestas Como Reflejo del Orden Social: El Caso de San Xavier de Bac”
in America Indígena,
1971
Lambrecht, W. (ed.) “Myth and the Quest for Meaning:
Mask and Metaphor: Role, Imagery, Disguise” in Parabola, 1981
Lavenda, R.H. “From Festival of Progress to Masque
of Degradation: Carnival in
Leach,
E. “Time and False Noses” in Rethinking
Anthropology.
Leach, E. Culture and Communication.
Lommel, A. Masks:
Their Meaning and Function.
MacLuan, M. “Myth and Mass Media” in Murray, H. (ed) Myth and
Mythmaking.
Mesnil, M. “The Masked Festival: Disguise or Affirmation?”
in Cultures, 1976.
Ogibenin, B. “Mask in Light of Semiotics” in Semiotica, 1975
Orloff, A. Carnival, Myth and Cult. Worgl: Perlinger, 1981
Ortiz Fernandez, F. Los Negros Brujos.
Paz, O. The Labyrinth of Solitude.
Rubin, A.
“Accumulation, Power and Display in African Sculpture” in Artforum, 1975
Stewart, J.
“Patronage and Control in the Trinidad Carnival” in Turner, V. (ed) The Anthopology of Experience.
Wells, R.
“Distinctively Human Semiotic” in Social
Science Information, 1967
White, H. “The Value
of Narrativity in the Representation of Reality” in Critical Inquiry 7(1) 1980
IV. ICONOGRAPHY
Boas,
F. Primitive Art.
Cante, E. Ritual
Animal Disguise.
Crumrine, R. and Macklin, B.J. “Sacred Ritual versus
the Unconscious: The Efficacy for Symbols and Structure in North Mexican Folk
Saint’s Cults” in Rossi,
Dieve, C. Vodú y Magia en
Fanon, F. Black Skin, White Masks.
Fernandez, J.W. “The
Performance of Ritual Metaphors” in Sapir J.D. and
Crocker, (eds) The Social Use of Metaphor.
Gaignebet, C. El Carnaval: Ensayos
de Mitología Popular.
Jaffe, A. “Symbolism
in the Visual Arts” in Jung, C. (ed) Man and His Symbols.
Kahler, E. “La Persistencia
del Mito” in Nuestro Laberinto.
Leach,
E. The Structural Study of Myth and Totemism.
Lonsdale, S. Animals and the Origins of Dance.
Macgowan, K. Masks and Demons.
Malinowski, B. Myth
in Primitive Society.
McCall, D. “The
Hornbill and Analogous Forms in West African Sculpture” in African Images: Essays in African Icongraphy.
Ortiz, M. Diablos Danzantes de
Rawson,
P. Primitive Erotic Art.
Rosenberg, J. El Gagá: Religión y
Sociedad de un Culto Dominicano.
Sorrell, W. The Other Face: The Mask in the Arts.
Taussig, M. The Devil and Commodity Fetishism in
Turner, V. Dramas, Fields and Metaphors: Symbolic Action in
Human Society.
V. STYLISTIC ANALYSIS
Aniakor, C. “Structuralism in Ikenga:
An Ethnoaesthetic Approach to Traditional Igbo Art”
in The Conch, 1974
Bascomb, W. “Creativity and Style in African Art” in Biebuyck,
D. (ed.) Tradition and Creativity in
Tribal Art.
Bohannan, P. “Artist and Critic in an African Society”
in Otten, C. (ed.) Anthropology and Art:
Dufrenne, M. The Phenomenology of Aesthetic Experience.
Graburn, N. (ed.) Ethnic and Tourist Arts: Cultural Expression from the
Kaplan, F.
“Structuralism and the Analysis of Folk Art,” Bulletin of the American Anthropological Association, 1977
Levy, D. “Masks from
the
Maranda, P. and Maranda E.K. Structural Models in Folklore and Transformational Essays.
Vlach, J.M. The African Tradition in Decorative Arts.
Wingert, P. “African Masks: Structure, Expression,
Style” in African Arts, 1973
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WEBSITES AND LINKS
These sites were downloaded in December 2005 and
were in effect at that time. Some are scholarly and others are commercial.
http://www.masksoftheworld.com/
http://www.artlex.com/ed/Maskmaking.html
http://cti.itc.virginia.edu/~bcr/African_Mask.html
http://www.mnh.si.edu/arctic/features/yupik/
http://www.artyfactory.com/africanmasks/
http://www.culturekiosque.com/art/exhibiti/masks.htm
http://users.panafonet.gr/ekar/masks.html
http://mask-and-more-masks.com
http://www.maskmakersweb.org
http://www.barton.edu/SchoolofArts&Sciences/Art/galtalk/gordon/Lessonpl.html
http://www.caribbeanchoice.net/
http://www.venicemaskshop.com/default.htm
http://www.masksmesoamerica.com/
http://www.mendels.com/mask.html
http://www.abc.net.au/arts/artok/craft/s197254.htm
http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/Exhibitions/Festiva1/en/lsm/page3.html