Wilder Mann: The Image of the Savage by Charles Fréger

Wilder Mann: The Image of the Savage

Charles Fréger with Geneviève Gauckler (Illustrator), Robert McLiam Wilson (Contributor)

272 pages first pub 2012 (editions)

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The rituals are centuries old and celebrate the seasonal cycle, fertility, life, and death. People literally put themselves into the skin of the "savage," in masquerades that stretch back centuries. By becoming a bear, a goat, a stag, a wild boar,...

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