Mari Lyn Salvador
Mari Lyn Salvador (16 June 1943 – 23 October 2017
Biography
Salvador started college as an art student focusing on weaving and pottery at San Francisco State University. After graduating, she joined the Peace Corps in 1966, and was sent to Panama to help build chicken coops.[2] She started an artist's cooperative with the Guna during the course of the project and began her study of molas.[3]
As a graduate student, Salvador collected molas during her graduate studies and based her book, The Art of Being Kuna: Layers of Meaning Among the Kuna of Panama, on that compilation. Her collection later formed a significant part of
After returning from Panama, she pursued a PhD in cultural anthropology at
Post-graduate work
Following completion of her PhD in 1976,
Museum career
Salvador served as chief curator at the
Selected publications
- Salvador, Mari Lyn. Kuna Women’s Arts: Molas, Meanings and Markets. Crafting Gender: Women and Folk art in Latin America and the Caribbean. Eli Barta (ed). Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 2003.
- Salvador, Mari Lyn (ed.) The Art of Being Kuna: Layers of Meaning Among the Kuna of Panama. Berkeley: University of California. 1997.
- Salvador, Mari Lyn. Cuando Hablan Los Santos: Contemporary Santero Traditions from Northern New Mexico. Albuquerque: Maxwell Museum of Anthropology. 1995.
- Salvador, Mari Lyn. Festas Acoreanas: Portuguese Religious Celebrations in California and the Azores. Oakland: The Oakland Museum History Department. 1981.
References
- ^ Former Hearst Museum Director Mari Lyn Salvador passes away
- ^ Steele, Jeanette. “Director’s a first for Museum of Man.” The San Diego Union-Tribune. July 5, 2004.
- ^ Steele 2004
- ^ Salvador, Mari Lyn (ed.) The Art of Being Kuna: Layers of Meaning Among the Kuna of Panama. Berkeley: University of California. 1997: xxi.
- ^ Salvador, Mari Lyn. Cuando Hablan Los Santos: Contemporary Santero Traditions from Northern New Mexico. Albuquerque: Maxwell Museum of Anthropology. 1995: xi
- ^ Salvador 1997: 49
- ^ Salvador 1997: 47
- ^ Salvador 1997: 49
- ^ Salvador 1995: xi
- ^ Steele 2004
- ^ Salvador 1995: xi
- ^ Salvador 1995: xiii
- ^ Steele 2004
- ^ Board of Trustees 2007, Council for Museum Anthropology, accessed 18 April 2008