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Aboriginal tourists and artistic exchange between the Pisquibo and the Shipiboessay 1981 • Roe, Peter G.
Shipibo • South America > Amazon and Orinoco
In this article Roe describes an instance of artistic exchange in the form of trade of painted pottery between two closely related groups of Panoans -- the Shipibo and the Pisquibo. The author attempts to establish a '… link between ecological adapta...Art and residence among the Shipibo Indians of Peruarticle 1980 • Roe, Peter G.
Shipibo • South America > Amazon and Orinoco
The geometric decorative art of the Shipibo Indians, Peruvian montaña, is produced by women balanced between a cultural imperative for personal innovation and submission to the constraints of traditional style. The experimental commissioning of paint...Marginal menarticle 1979 • Roe, Peter G.
Shipibo • South America > Amazon and Orinoco
This article describes the anomalous position of male Shipibo artists in the jungle area of Peru. ' In this society the production of art is theoretically the exclusive domain of women. Since they use it to decorate various craft objects such as pott...Myth, cosmos, and ceremony among the Shipibobook chapter 1982 • Roe, Peter G.
Shipibo • South America > Amazon and Orinoco
Following an ethnographic sketch of the Shipibo, Roe presents a sample of 11 mythological texts, dealing primarily with ethnic interactions, relations of the sexes, and major supernatural figures. These texts deal with myths of a serious nature as we...