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Drawing on family materials, historical records, and eyewitness
accounts, this book shows the impact of war on individual women
caught up in diverse and often treacherous situations. It relates
stories of partisans in Holland, an Italian woman carrying guns and
provisions in the face of hostile soldiers, and Kikuyu women
involved in the Mau Mau insurrection in Kenya. A woman displaced
from Silesia recalls fleeing with children across war-torn Germany,
and women caught up in conflicts in Burma and in Rwanda share their
tales. War's aftermath can be traumatic, as shown by journalists in
Libya and by a midwife on the Cambodian border who helps refugees
to give birth and regain hope. Finally, British women on active
service in Afghanistan and at NATO headquarters also speak.
Drawing on family materials, historical records, and eyewitness
accounts, this book shows the impact of war on individual women
caught up in diverse and often treacherous situations. It relates
stories of partisans in Holland, an Italian woman carrying guns and
provisions in the face of hostile soldiers, and Kikuyu women
involved in the Mau Mau insurrection in Kenya. A woman displaced
from Silesia recalls fleeing with children across war-torn Germany,
and women caught up in conflicts in Burma and in Rwanda share their
tales. War's aftermath can be traumatic, as shown by journalists in
Libya and by a midwife on the Cambodian border who helps refugees
to give birth and regain hope. Finally, British women on active
service in Afghanistan and at NATO headquarters also speak.
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.
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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