Goldwork and Shamanism

An Iconographic Study of the Gold Museum of the Banco de la República, Colombia

• Author(s): Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff,
• Publisher: Villegas Asociados
• Pages: 287
• ISBN_10: 9588156610
  ISBN_13: 9789588156613
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Antiques & Collectibles / Silver, Gold & Other Metals , Art / Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / General , Art / Caribbean & Latin American , Social Science / Archaeology ,

Description:... Classic study with excellent photos of gold artifacts. Book by expert researcher in Pre-Columbian cultures of Colombia Reichel-Dolmatoff withstudies of the mysterious rituals of what was undoubtedly the most important aspect of the life of the ancient ethnic communities of El Dorado: the decisive role of the Shaman andtheir hallucinatory world of magic and religion. The book analyses the spiritual dimensions of these cultures and the natural wisdom of century-old secrets along lavish full-pagecolor images of the enigmatic and beautiful gold objects still known today as "gold of the ancients" that skillful craftsman wrought for ritual use.