Masks and their stories

Wooden and leather, iron and paper, woolen and straw, clay and silk ... It turns out that masks are not only medical!
Just imagine how much humanity in its history came up with a variety of masks for ceremonies, rituals, ideas and just for practical purposes.
Do you want to see the most interesting and unusual of them? Pavel Boyev, the author of the book, an anthropologist and an ecologist, will lead us into an amazing world of rare and amazing masks. Mahongwe, Bakairi, Tlinkites ... If before you did not know anything about these peoples, now you will imagine where they live, what they believe, to whom they worship and how masks are used in their lives.
The author will lead us through the wet forests of tropical Africa, jungle in the upper Amazons and the banks of the New Ireland, on the deserts of the Middle East. We will catch fish with the Tlinkites of the Pacific coast of the United States, we will see Topeng dancing on the island of Java, cut out snow glasses so as not to blind in the Far North, and dive behind the pearls in the waters of the Persian Gulf. And our journey will take tens of thousands of years - from the distant past to this day!
The book contains three large sections, which contains ritual, theatrical and functional masks. Each chapter is a separate turn dedicated to any one mask. The chapters begin with a story about the mask itself: its origin, history, about its creators. Then there are myths, legends or historical events associated with this mask. And in the end - information about the natural environment, plants, animals, climate - about how they influenced the culture of these peoples