Dr Paolo Fortis' Outputs (2)

Kuna Art and Shamanism: An Ethnographic Approach (2012)
Book
Fortis, P. (2013). Kuna Art and Shamanism: An Ethnographic Approach. University of Texas Press

The first book to study wood carving and its relation to shamanism among Kuna people from the San Blas Archipelago, providing a rich new lens for understanding the Kuna worldview Known for their beautiful textile art, the Kuna of Panama have been scr... Read More about Kuna Art and Shamanism: An Ethnographic Approach.

Images of person in an Amerindian society. An ethnographic account of Kuna woodcarving (2012)
Journal Article
Fortis, P. (2012). Images of person in an Amerindian society. An ethnographic account of Kuna woodcarving. Journal de la Société des américanistes (En ligne), 98(1), 7-37. https://doi.org/10.4000/jsa.12119

Images of person in an Amerindian society. An ethnographic account of Kuna woodcarving. The long debated problem of representation in Amerindian art discussed by Boas, Kroeber and Lévi-Strauss is reconsidered in this article through an ethnographic a... Read More about Images of person in an Amerindian society. An ethnographic account of Kuna woodcarving.