Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

This study in aesthetic anthropology by Regina Polo Müller revolves around the following topics: 1. Supports and techniques in drawing: artistic style; 2. Techniques and style in drawing; 3. “Tayngava”: pattern, image, replica of the human form [...]

This publication by anthropologist Maria Heloisa Fénelon Costa encompasses the following sections: Introduction; I. Drawing; II. The World’s Beings; III. Supernatural; IV. Animals- Iconography. The Mehináku Classification of the World and [...]

This is a research project published by Claudia Andújar as well as a large-format art book with a trilingual text (Portuguese, Italian, and English). The book is illustrated with drawings made with felt tip pens by Koromani Waika, Mamokè Rorowè, [...]

This volume contains three essays on the feather art of the Mekrãgnoti tribe, a subgroup of the Kayapó people. The first, “La notion de personne. La peinture corporelle chez les Kayapó” [Body Painting Among the Kayapó: The Concept of Person [...]

This book jointly written by the anthropologists Darcy Ribeiro and his wife Berta G. Ribeiro is about the extremely elaborate feather work produced by the Urubú-Kaapor indigenous people, who are members of the Tupi language branch, and live in [...]

This text by Gastão Cruls is outlined as follows: The Visual Arts, Basic Elements and Development; Instruments and Material; Body Adornments; Featherwork; Auxiliary Decoration Elements; Braids and Weaves; Works with Strings of Beads; Artifacts Made [...]

This essay by the anthropologist Darcy Ribeiro was published in the História geral da arte no Brasil. The essay includes the following subjects: 1. Introductions: The Indians. Art genres (art on stone, weavings, fabrics, ceramics, and music). [...]

This essay presents an anthology of drawings by indigenous people collected as part of the aesthetic anthropological studies conducted by Lux Vidal. The anthropologist Dominique Tilkin Gallois, in this essay about the Waiãpi Indians (the [...]

This is a chapter from Kadiwéu, the book about the homonymous indigenous group. The chapter, called “Arte: a vontade da beleza” [Art: The Will of Beauty], includes ethnological studies about knowledge, bad luck, and beauty. Here, [...]

The Desana ethnic group is represented in this book by their myths, which are set in the Rio Negro region (in the Brazilian state of Amazonas), as narrated by one of their descendant groups, the Khẽíripõrã. The myths describe [...]

This is the second edition of the book by Theodor Koch-Grünberg, Anfänge der Kunst im Urwald: Indianer-Handzeichnungen auf seinen Reisen in Brasilien gesammelt [Principles of Art in the Virgin Jungle: A Collection of Indigenous Drawings Assembled [...]

This text by anthropologist Lux Vidal discusses the body painting and graphic art of the Xikrin Indians, a subgroup of the Kayapó ethnicity clustered in the southeastern region of the state of Pará. The text includes forty-five paintings on paper, [...]

This essay by anthropologist Jussara Gomes Grüber forms part of an anthology entitled Grafismo indígena. Estudos de antropologia estética coordinated by Lux Vidal. Its aim is to shed light on the range of graphic representations found in different [...]