To Weave and Sing Art, Symbol and Narrative in the South American Rain Forest

"To Weave and Singis a beautiful book that crosses disciplines--a celebration of the human imagination that transcends cultural barriers."--Lucy R. Lippard, author ofPop Art and Overlay: Contemporary Art and the Art of Prehistory "In David Guss'sTo Weave and Sing, the core of the world's most cryptic cultural region takes form and shines by its own light."--Roy Wagner, University of Virginia "Guss takes us a good way into the sacred ideology of the Yekuana basket and into the minds of the Yekuana as they sing their baskets into existence. . . . I would call this a seminal and path-breaking work, one of the most stimulating and significant in many a year on South American Indian culture."--Peter T. Furst, University of Pennsylvania MuseumGuss, David M. is the author of 'To Weave and Sing Art, Symbol and Narrative in the South American Rain Forest', published 1990 under ISBN 9780520071858 and ISBN 0520071859.