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Mary W. Helms

Author of Ulysses' Sail: An Ethnographic Odyssey of Power, Knowledge, and Geographical Distance

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Mary W. Helms is professor of anthropology at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro.

Works by Mary W. Helms

Ulysses' Sail: An Ethnographic Odyssey of Power, Knowledge, and Geographical Distance (1988) 29 copies

Craft and the Kingly Ideal: Art, Trade, and Power (1993) 19 copies

Middle America: a culture history of heartland and frontiers (1975) 12 copies

Ancient Panama: Chiefs in Search of Power (1979) 9 copies

Access to Origins: Affines, Ancestors, and Aristocrats (1998) 8 copies

Creations of the rainbow serpent : polychrome ceramic designs from ancient Panama (1995) 3 copies

Cuna Molas and Cocle Art Forms: Reflections on Panamanian Design Styles and Symbols (Working Papers in the Traditional… (1981) 3 copies

Frontier adaptations in lower Central America (1976) 2 copies

The Curassow's Crest: Myths and Symbols in the Ceramics of Ancient Panama (2000) 1 copy

Asang; adaptations to culture contact in a Miskito community (1971) 1 copy

Helms 2004 - Before the Dawn - Monks and the Night ... 1 copy

Asang: Adaptation to Culture Contact in a Miskito Community (2008) 1 copy

Associated Works

The Ancient Americas: Art from Sacred Landscapes (Art & Design) (1992) — Contributor — 70 copies

Implicit Understandings: Observing, Reporting and Reflecting on the Encounters between Europeans and Other Peoples in… (1994) — Contributor — 39 copies

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Birthdate: 1938
Gender: female
Occupations: professor of anthropology

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ISBNs: 25

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