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Beads and Bead Makers - Gender, Material Culture and Meaning (Hardcover)
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Beads and Bead Makers - Gender, Material Culture and Meaning (Hardcover)
Series: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Women
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Beads have been used since antiquity, not only to dress the body,
but as measures of value in economic and ritual exchanges. Their
popularity has never waned, and in recent years their trade has
enjoyed a world-wide revival. Beads have deep and multiple
meanings: in many cultures, together with garments, they reflect
age, gender and social status, and are a vehicle through which
people store, exchange and transmit wealth.
This absorbing book analyzes techniques and gendered aspects of the
making of beads, as well as their role in trade and body adornment,
in a wide range of societies, from the ancient Mediterranean to
Renaissance Venice and present-day Southern Africa and West Africa,
where they have become a symbol of cultural survival and identity.
Anyone interested in material culture, anthropology, art history,
and gender studies will find that this book provides fascinating
insights into attitudes toward the body and its dress as well as
systems of social classification.
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