Anthropology
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African dolls: A private collection [Hardback]
Jan Wychers(Author); Jolanda Bos(Author)
$37.00ISBN: 9789492940162
Published by : Blikvelduitgevers Publishers
Series: The Private Collection Series
Volume: 1
This private collection of African dolls, sometimes spontaneously decorated with beadwork, are witnesses of people's hopes and beliefs. The book is richly illustrated with overviews and detailed photographs of the objects and, apart from a descrip... .... Learn More -
Wearables: Magazine on Wearable Heritage [Paperback]
Jolanda Bos(Editor)
$26.00ISBN: 9789492940179
Published by : Blikvelduitgevers Publishers
Series: Wearables
Volume: 1
Annual magazine edition, attractively illustrated, bringing together a variety of ethnographic topics on costume and jewelry traditions, placed in their cultural setting. .... Learn More -
Journal of the Himalayan Institute of Cultural Heritage Studies [Paperback]
Sonali Gupta(Editor)
$30.00ISBN: 9789492940186
Published by : Blikvelduitgevers Publishers
Volume: 1
The Journal of the Himalayan Institute of Cultural and Heritage Studies is an endeavor to include research oriented articles on the Himalayas from different sections of academia which includes and is not limited to archaeology, anthropology, histo... .... Learn More -
Robert Codrington's Ethnographic Collections from Melanesia [Paperback]
Nick Stanley(Author)
$30.00ISBN: 9780861592357
Published by : British Museum
Series: British Museum Research Publications
Volume: 235
Robert Codrington (1830–1922) trained to be a priest at Oxford University where he was ordained in 1857. He volunteered to work in Nelson, New Zealand, from 1860–4 and was appointed as headmaster of the Melanesian Mission training scho... .... Learn More -
The Cultural History of Musical Instruments in Scotland: 1700 to the Present Day [Paperback]
Vivien E. Williams(Editor); Hugh Cheape(Editor)
$50.00ISBN: 9781910900208
Published by : John Donald
What can a bagpipe, a fiddle or a harpsichord tell us about national culture and identity? Each country has a different story to tell, and Scotland’s story has not yet been told. This book traces the cultural and social history of musical in... .... Learn More -
Silver and Frankincense: Scent and personal adornment in the Arab world [Paperback]
Sigrid van Roode(Author)
$23.00ISBN: 9789492940100
Published by : Blikvelduitgevers Publishers
Although scent has always played a major role in personal adornment in the Arab world, its evanescent quality leaves very few or no traces at all over time. This book presents an introduction into this lesser known aspect of personal adornment in ... .... Learn More -
Kleronomia: Legacy and Inheritance: Studies on the Aegean Bronze Age in Honor of Jeffrey S. Soles [Hardback]
Prof. Joanne M.A. Murphy PhD(Editor); Dr. Jerolyn E. Morrison PhD(Editor)
$80.00ISBN: 9781931534284
Published by : INSTAP Academic Press (Institute for Aegean Prehistory)
Series: Prehistory Monographs
Volume: 61
Kleronomiá (kληρονομιά)—meaning legacy, inheritance, or allotment—encapsulates many of Jeffrey Soles’s feelings about the modern town and archaeological site of Mochlos in eas... .... Learn More -
Göltepe Excavations: Tin Production at an Early Bronze Age Mining Town in the Central Taurus Mountains, Turkey [Hardback]
Prof. Kutlu Aslıhan Yener PhD(Author)
$80.00Click here for ebook buying options
ISBN: 9781931534277
Published by : INSTAP Academic Press (Institute for Aegean Prehistory)
Series: Prehistory Monographs
Volume: 64
This volume presents over fifteen years (1981–1996) of archaeometallurgy surveys and specifically the excavations of an Early Bronze Age miners’ village, Göltepe and its associated tin mine, Kestel. The results of the surface surv... .... Learn More -
Gournes, Pediada: A Minoan Cemetery in Crete [Hardback]
Calliope E. Galanaki(Author)
$80.00Click here for ebook buying options
ISBN: 9781931534260
Published by : INSTAP Academic Press (Institute for Aegean Prehistory)
Series: Prehistory Monographs
Volume: 63
The results of the excavation of an Early Bronze Age cemetery—including 37 tombs and an associated rectangular Minoan building—at Gournes in north-central Crete revealed strong relations with the Cyclades during the time of the Kampos ... .... Learn More -
The Minoan Shipwreck at Pseira, Crete [Hardback]
Dr. Elpida Hadjidaki-Marder PhD(Author)
$80.00Click here for ebook buying options
ISBN: 9781931534291
Published by : INSTAP Academic Press (Institute for Aegean Prehistory)
Series: Prehistory Monographs
Volume: 65
This volume describes the discovery in 2003 and excavation between 2004 and 2009 of a Minoan ship that sunk near the island of Pseira around 1725/1700 BC. The recovered cargo constitutes the largest known corpus of complete and almost complete cla... .... Learn More
