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This month Carolyn has her last chance to make edits to the book she and Kim Cox have been working on for almost 10 years!
Here's what some of the best researchers in the field are saying about it!
It is rare that a book completely changes our perspective on a major body of rock art. Yet that is what Carolyn Boyd's The White Shaman Mural
will do for the spectacular Pecos River murals. Combining an impeccable ethnological approach with hard data obtained via new recording methods, this groundbreaking book is eminently readable despite the complexity of the concepts involved. It should appeal to lay readers as well as professionals.
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Jean Clottes, Internationally acclaimed rock art researcher
The White Shaman Mural
not only provides a thorough
demonstrati
on of technique, but it also raises provocative issues regarding the history and cosmovision of Native America. Boyd penetrates the cosmological conceptions of the past as she unveils an amazing text painted on a rock shelter wall thousands of years ago in southwest Texas.
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Alfredo López Austin, UNAM
This volume is surely the most important publication on Lower Pecos rock art in this-and perhaps even in the last-millennium. Boyd uses Mesoamerican ethnohistoric data and pan-Mesoamerican concepts to interpret what others have regarded as uninterpretable. This book will not simply challenge the field but will redefine it.
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Thomas Guderjan, University of Texas at Tyler
This is a milestone in the study of ancient American visual culture. This work
makes a major contribution to the literature on the expansive interaction spheres and fluid boundaries between the US Southwest, Mesoamerica, and south Texas. It provides a solid model for the interpretation of visual imagery from societies without alphabetic writing and especially for the study of Mesoamerican and Native American art.
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Carolyn Tate
, Texas Tech University
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