Masks And Identity
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Masks and Identity
Author: Pasquale De Marco
language: en
Publisher: Pasquale De Marco
Release Date: 2025-07-09
In a world where identity is fluid and perception shapes reality, masks become powerful tools for self-expression, concealment, and transformation. This book takes you on a captivating journey into the multifaceted world of masks, exploring their profound significance in human culture and their impact on our identities, interactions, and expressions. From ancient rituals to contemporary art, masks have played a pivotal role in human societies across time and space. They have empowered individuals to embody different personas, challenge societal norms, and navigate the complexities of social interactions. Through masks, we can express our deepest fears and desires, reveal our hidden selves, and explore the boundaries of our identities. Within these pages, you will uncover the psychology behind masks, delving into the reasons why we are drawn to them and how they influence our perceptions of ourselves and others. You will discover the diverse ways in which masks are used in different cultures, from traditional ceremonies and festivals to modern art installations and political protests. This book also examines the benefits and drawbacks of masks, considering their impact on mental health, social well-being, and ethical considerations. It explores how masks can be used as tools for personal growth and healing, while also acknowledging the potential risks associated with their use. With captivating insights and thought-provoking analysis, this book invites you to question the nature of identity and the role that masks play in shaping our lives. It is a must-read for anyone interested in the psychology of human behavior, the history of art and culture, and the ever-evolving relationship between the self and society. Join us on this fascinating journey into the world of masks, where reality is transformed and identities are redefined. Discover the hidden layers of meaning behind these enigmatic objects and gain a deeper understanding of the human experience. If you like this book, write a review!
Crafting Identity
Author: Pavel Shlossberg
language: en
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Release Date: 2015-06-11
Crafting Identity goes far beyond folklore in its ethnographic exploration of mask making in central Mexico. In addition to examining larger theoretical issues about indigenous and mestizo identity and cultural citizenship as represented through masks and festivals, the book also examines how dominant institutions of cultural production (art, media, and tourism) mediate Mexican “arte popular,” which makes Mexican indigeneity “digestible” from the standpoint of elite and popular Mexican nationalism and American and global markets for folklore. The first ethnographic study of its kind, the book examines how indigenous and mestizo mask makers, both popular and elite, view and contest relations of power and inequality through their craft. Using data from his interviews with mask makers, collectors, museum curators, editors, and others, Pavel Shlossberg places the artisans within the larger context of their relationships with the nation-state and Mexican elites, as well as with the production cultures that inform international arts and crafts markets. In exploring the connection of mask making to capitalism, the book examines the symbolic and material pressures brought to bear on Mexican artisans to embody and enact self-racializing stereotypes and the performance of stigmatized indigenous identities. Shlossberg’s weaving of ethnographic data and cultural theory demystifies the way mask makers ascribe meaning to their practices and illuminates how these practices are influenced by state and cultural institutions. Demonstrating how the practice of mask making negotiates ethnoracial identity with regard to the Mexican state and the United States, Shlossberg shows how it derives meaning, value, and economic worth in the eyes of the state and cultural institutions that mediate between the mask maker and the market.
Tear Off the Masks!
Author: Sheila Fitzpatrick
language: en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date: 2005-07-25
When revolutions happen, they change the rules of everyday life--both the codified rules concerning the social and legal classifications of citizens and the unwritten rules about how individuals present themselves to others. This occurred in Russia after the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, which laid the foundations of the Soviet state, and again in 1991, when that state collapsed. Tear Off the Masks! is about the remaking of identities in these times of upheaval. Sheila Fitzpatrick here brings together in a single volume years of distinguished work on how individuals literally constructed their autobiographies, defended them under challenge, attempted to edit the "file-selves" created by bureaucratic identity documentation, and denounced others for "masking" their true social identities. Marxist class-identity labels--"worker," "peasant," "intelligentsia," "bourgeois"--were of crucial importance to the Soviet state in the 1920s and 1930s, but it turned out that the determination of a person's class was much more complicated than anyone expected. This in turn left considerable scope for individual creativity and manipulation. Outright imposters, both criminal and political, also make their appearance in this book. The final chapter describes how, after decades of struggle to construct good Soviet socialist personae, Russians had to struggle to make themselves fit for the new, post-Soviet world in the 1990s--by "de-Sovietizing" themselves. Engaging in style and replete with colorful detail and characters drawn from a wealth of sources, Tear Off the Masks! offers unique insight into the elusive forms of self-presentation, masking, and unmasking that made up Soviet citizenship and continue to resonate in the post-Soviet world.