CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- Masks, Participants, and Audience -- The Many Faces of Masks and Masking: Discussion -- PART I: NORTH AMERICA -- 1. Labrador Nalujuk: The Transformation of an Aboriginal Inuit Ritual Complex in a Post-Contact Setting -- 2. Naskapi Trance: Counterbalance to the Mask -- 3. Seneca Masks -- 4. Cherokee Booger Mask Tradition -- 5. Analogic Causality and the Power of Masks -- PART II: MIDDLE AMERICA -- 6. The Mask and Magic of the Yaqui Paskola Clowns -- 7. Mask Use and Meaning in Easter Ceremonialism: The Mayo Parisero -- 8. Symbolic Representation in Mexican Combat Plays -- 9. The Meaning of Masking in San Pedro Chenalho -- 10. Tarascan Masks of Women as Agents of Social Control -- PART III: SOUTH AMERICA -- 11. The Devil Mask: A Contemporary Variant of Andean Iconography in Oruro -- 12. Masks in the Incaic Solstice and Equinoctial Rituals -- 13. Being an Essence: Totemic Representation among the Eastern Bororo -- 14. Masks and Masquerades in Venezuela -- PART IV: CONCLUSION AND SYNTHESIS -- 15. The Mask and the Violation of Taboo -- 16. Masks: A Re-examination, or "Masks? You mean they affect the brain?" -- 17. The Mask of Tradition -- REFERENCES.