Author: Michael Stevenson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Presenting the glories and sophisticated artistry of African beadwork, this study focuses on the beadwork of Zulu communities.
South East African Beadwork, 1850-1910
Author: Michael Stevenson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Presenting the glories and sophisticated artistry of African beadwork, this study focuses on the beadwork of Zulu communities.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Presenting the glories and sophisticated artistry of African beadwork, this study focuses on the beadwork of Zulu communities.
The Art & Tradition of Beadwork
Author: Marsha C. Bol
Publisher: Gibbs Smith
ISBN: 1423631803
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 1159
Book Description
A former professor and museum director offers a fascinating, in-depth look at the culture and history of beaded objects around the world. From a beaded dress found in an ancient Egyptian tomb to the beaded fringe on a 1920s Parisian flapper’s hem, humans throughout history have used beading as a way to express, adorn, and tell a story. Bol explores beadwork across the world and through the ages, showing how beading has taken on many different styles, forms, and purposes for different cultures. She looks at children’s clothing, puberty ceremonies, burials, emblems of social status and leadership, festivals, and many other cultural occasions that involve the use of beadwork. Images of artifacts and heirlooms as well as photography of people and their beadwork enhance the scholarship of this book for a beautiful, enlightening addition to art, history, multicultural collections everywhere.
Publisher: Gibbs Smith
ISBN: 1423631803
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 1159
Book Description
A former professor and museum director offers a fascinating, in-depth look at the culture and history of beaded objects around the world. From a beaded dress found in an ancient Egyptian tomb to the beaded fringe on a 1920s Parisian flapper’s hem, humans throughout history have used beading as a way to express, adorn, and tell a story. Bol explores beadwork across the world and through the ages, showing how beading has taken on many different styles, forms, and purposes for different cultures. She looks at children’s clothing, puberty ceremonies, burials, emblems of social status and leadership, festivals, and many other cultural occasions that involve the use of beadwork. Images of artifacts and heirlooms as well as photography of people and their beadwork enhance the scholarship of this book for a beautiful, enlightening addition to art, history, multicultural collections everywhere.
African Folklore
Author: Philip M. Peek
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135948739
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 1256
Book Description
Written by an international team of experts, this is the first work of its kind to offer comprehensive coverage of folklore throughout the African continent. Over 300 entries provide in-depth examinations of individual African countries, ethnic groups, religious practices, artistic genres, and numerous other concepts related to folklore. Featuring original field photographs, a comprehensive index, and thorough cross-references, African Folklore: An Encyclopedia is an indispensable resource for any library's folklore or African studies collection. Also includes seven maps.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135948739
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 1256
Book Description
Written by an international team of experts, this is the first work of its kind to offer comprehensive coverage of folklore throughout the African continent. Over 300 entries provide in-depth examinations of individual African countries, ethnic groups, religious practices, artistic genres, and numerous other concepts related to folklore. Featuring original field photographs, a comprehensive index, and thorough cross-references, African Folklore: An Encyclopedia is an indispensable resource for any library's folklore or African studies collection. Also includes seven maps.
South African Art, 1850-now
Author: Michael Stevenson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
A Long Way Home
Author: William Beinart
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 1868149943
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 621
Book Description
In no other society in the world have urbanisation and industrialization been as comprehensively based on migrant labour as in South Africa. Rather than focusing on the well-documented narrative of displacement and oppression, A Long Way Home captures the humanity, agency and creative modes of self-expression of the millions of workers who helped to build and shape modern South Africa. The book spans a three-hundred-year history beginning with the exportation of slave labour from Mozambique in the eighteenth century and ending with the strikes and tensions on the platinum belt in recent years. It shows not only the age-old mobility of African migrants across the continent but also, with the growing demand for labour in the mining industry, the importation of Chinese indentured migrant workers. Contributions include 18 essays and over 90 artworks and photographs that traverse homesteads, chiefdoms and mining hostels, taking readers into the materiality of migrant life and its customs and traditions, including the rituals practiced by migrants in an effort to preserve connections to “home” and create a sense of “belonging”. The essays and visual materials provide multiple perspectives on the lived experience of migrant labourers and celebrate their extraordinary journeys. A Long Way Home was conceived during the planning of an art exhibition entitled ‘Ngezinyawo: Migrant Journeys’ at Wits Art Museum. The interdisciplinary nature of the contributions and the extraordinary collection of images selected to complement and expand on the text make this a unique collection.
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 1868149943
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 621
Book Description
In no other society in the world have urbanisation and industrialization been as comprehensively based on migrant labour as in South Africa. Rather than focusing on the well-documented narrative of displacement and oppression, A Long Way Home captures the humanity, agency and creative modes of self-expression of the millions of workers who helped to build and shape modern South Africa. The book spans a three-hundred-year history beginning with the exportation of slave labour from Mozambique in the eighteenth century and ending with the strikes and tensions on the platinum belt in recent years. It shows not only the age-old mobility of African migrants across the continent but also, with the growing demand for labour in the mining industry, the importation of Chinese indentured migrant workers. Contributions include 18 essays and over 90 artworks and photographs that traverse homesteads, chiefdoms and mining hostels, taking readers into the materiality of migrant life and its customs and traditions, including the rituals practiced by migrants in an effort to preserve connections to “home” and create a sense of “belonging”. The essays and visual materials provide multiple perspectives on the lived experience of migrant labourers and celebrate their extraordinary journeys. A Long Way Home was conceived during the planning of an art exhibition entitled ‘Ngezinyawo: Migrant Journeys’ at Wits Art Museum. The interdisciplinary nature of the contributions and the extraordinary collection of images selected to complement and expand on the text make this a unique collection.
Beads of life
Author: Marie-Louise Labelle
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
ISBN: 1772823724
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 199
Book Description
Beads of Life is a fascinating exploration of traditional beadwork from eastern and southern Africa, as well as the socio-religious principles upon which many aesthetic choices were based. The author concludes with an examination of contemporary beadwork as seen, in particular, through the eyes of Canadians from these regions.
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
ISBN: 1772823724
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 199
Book Description
Beads of Life is a fascinating exploration of traditional beadwork from eastern and southern Africa, as well as the socio-religious principles upon which many aesthetic choices were based. The author concludes with an examination of contemporary beadwork as seen, in particular, through the eyes of Canadians from these regions.
The Cambridge History of South Africa: Volume 2, 1885–1994
Author: Robert Ross
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316025675
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1377
Book Description
This book surveys South African history from the discovery of gold in the Witwatersrand in the late nineteenth century to the first democratic elections in 1994. Written by many of the leading historians of the country, it pulls together four decades of scholarship to present a detailed overview of South Africa during the twentieth century. It covers political, economic, social and intellectual developments and their interconnections in a clear and objective manner. This book, the second of two volumes, represents an important reassessment of all the major historical events, developments and records of South Africa and will be an important new tool for students and professors of African history worldwide, as well as the basis for further development and research.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316025675
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1377
Book Description
This book surveys South African history from the discovery of gold in the Witwatersrand in the late nineteenth century to the first democratic elections in 1994. Written by many of the leading historians of the country, it pulls together four decades of scholarship to present a detailed overview of South Africa during the twentieth century. It covers political, economic, social and intellectual developments and their interconnections in a clear and objective manner. This book, the second of two volumes, represents an important reassessment of all the major historical events, developments and records of South Africa and will be an important new tool for students and professors of African history worldwide, as well as the basis for further development and research.
Kaapse bibliotekaris
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Issues for Nov. 1957- include section: Accessions. Aanwinste, Sept. 1957-
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Issues for Nov. 1957- include section: Accessions. Aanwinste, Sept. 1957-
African Beaded Art
Author: John Pemberton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Catalog of an exhibition held at Smith College Museum of Art, Feb. 1-Jun. 15, 2008.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Catalog of an exhibition held at Smith College Museum of Art, Feb. 1-Jun. 15, 2008.
African Arts
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art, African
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art, African
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description