Masks, Transformation, and Paradox

Name: Masks, Transformation, and Paradox
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ISBN: 9780520045330

ISBN-10: 0520045335

ISBN-13: 9780520045330

Edition: 1987

Authors: A. David Napier, Rodney Needham

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Masks are found world-wide in connection with seasonal festivals, rites of passage, and curative ceremonies. They provide a means of investigating the paradoxical problems that appearances pose in the experience of transitional states. In this far-reaching work, A. David Napier studies mask iconography and the role played by masks in the realization of change. The masks of preclassical Greece -- in particular those of the Satyr and the Gorgon -- provide his starting point. A comparison of Greek to Eastern and especially Indian models follows, and the book concludes with an examination of the interpretation of Hindu ideas in Bali that demonstrates the importance of ambivalence in mask…

Book details

List price: $33.95
Copyright year: 1987
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 10/27/1987
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 312
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Foreword


Preface



Masks, Transformation, and Paradox


Paradox


Christianity and Polytheism: The Problem of Prima Facie Evidence


Interpreting Transformations


Ambiguity and Saltation


Revivification and Reincarnation: Supernatural and Social Order


Numen Inest: Pantheons and Presuppositions



Masks and the Beginnings of Greek Drama


Ritual as Entertainment; Entertainment as Ritual


Tragedy and the Evolution of Drama


Aristotle's Testimony


Ritual Drama and Tragic Sentiment



Satyr, Centaur, Theriomorphic Healer


Types of Preclassical Greek Masks


The Satyr: Its Character and Iconography


Indo-European Elements in the Satyrs and Centaurs of Ancient Greece


Centaurs and Heracles


Centaurs, Ambivalence, and Curing



Perseus and the Gorgon Head


The Medusa's Story


Iconographical Considerations


The Gorgon as a Leonine Creature


The Gorgon Reconsidered



The Third Eye


Iconological Considerations


Leonine Manifestations of the Eye


Foreheads


Soma and Madhu: Aphrodisiacs and Apotropaism


Signs of the Mistress



Balinese Faces and Indian Prototypes


Hinduism and Bali: Problems in Interpretation


Indonesia and the Sources of Monstrous Icons


The Senses Manifested as an Apotropaic System


Rangda and Barong: Displaying Archetypes


Epilogue


Notes


Bibliography


Index