Vol. 49 No. 3, May 1997
Index
- A builder of images.
- Brazil's Joyce: music on her own terms.
- Flintknapping comes of age; anthropologists and hobbyists alike have rekindled interest in this ancient art, enhancing understanding of primitive cultures and preserving a practical skill.
- German Arciniegas: guardian of our distinct history.
- Glorious restoration.
- New Maya scribes: a photography cooperative of mostly women is recording scenes of everyday life in Chiapas, Mexico, in images of social and artistic eloquence.
- Off the beaten track to early Amazonians.
- Organic coffee: a Venezuelan perk.
- Widening the Western Web.
- The illumination of an hidalgo: a sixteenth-century document reveals a portrait of a New World nobleman while reflecting conditions in the Old World.
- Jungle stories of hidden hues: sinister symbols of modern encroachment lurk in the lush, primeval forests of Uruguayan painter Jose Gamarra.