ABSTRACT
Brian Feldman, a North American, explores the notion of the “cultural skin” in Brazil as a container for the individual and collective psyche of its people. His study is based upon anthropological fieldwork he has conducted in an Amazonian elementary school, infant observation of a baby of Mayan origin, and a keen sensitivity to the contemporary Brazilian soul as it lives in music and culture. The cultural skin mediates experience between the subjective and symbolic realm of images and the intersubjective dialogues that take place in the social spaces between self and other.
