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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. y Very Good. n. London & Brighton: Merrell Publishers Limited in association with The Green Centre for Non-Western Art, 2000. Book. Very Good. Brown Cloth Boards. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Collection of over 250 photographs which provide a record of Burma between the wars. 192pp with index, illustrated throughout in black and white. Silver lettering to spine. Minimal foxing to top edges, otherwise very good copy for no inscriptions. Unclipped DJ has minor creasing to edges and small nick to top corner, otherwise very good. HEAVY BOOK, extra postage may be required for Air Mail shipping. Book.…

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 184 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 184 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 647 pages. 9.00x6.00x1.50 inches. In Stock.

Softcover. Zustand: Very Good. The wraps are a little shelf rubbed and edge worn. Internally, clean. Tightly bound. r*06/03/2025. [ak]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Soft cover. Zustand: Fine. 231 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), colour map ; 28 cm. Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Johannesburg Art Gallery. M any of the public and private collections around South Africa contain examples of what have come to be called 'fertility dolls': small, usually anthropomorphic forms fabricated by women, with a believed ceremonial use in aspects of the matu- ration and identity of women. It is within this defini- tion that the selection of material for the exhibition and this volume is made. This definition points to a wide scope of objects and practices; suggesting not categories of one type of thing, but a range of manifestations of fertility and its representation across southern Africa. At one end of this scale, these objects can be playthings, not unlike the kinds of figures which are used in games of socialisation all over the world, where young girls mimic the actions of their mothers in nursing and caring for infants. At the other extreme are objects used by adults in the performance of specific rituals. The former deal with imagination and projection, the latter can function as intermediaries between living and dead - between women and their powers to reproduce. In most cases the figures form part of a system of metaphorical thought centring around fertility. Some figures are apparently the manifesta- tions of wished-for children, and are named and nursed as such, but they also represent women of childbearing age, rather than babies. Some figures function as tools of instruction to young initiates, used by tutors in enactments of sexual and social roles. Some figures apparently have a number of functions, which change with the needs of their maturing owner. Each essay in this volume explores the evidence for fertility Images in a particular region or time in southern Africa, using the loose definition of miniature form with associations of fertility. In some cases they trace relationships across ethnic or regional lines. In some cases the forms are read as metaphors, and rich layers of association are revealed from the form that the figures take, the materials from which they are made, the words with which they are associated. Sometimes they refer to forms which are attributed in local knowledge with a historical role in fertility, but which in the South Africa of today communicate different messages to a widely different market. In some cases they challenge the very nation of this category as a useful tool. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Virtually as New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Virtually as New. First Edition. 192 pages, 250 black and white photographs, published here as a collection for the first time. 'A comprehensively illustrated record of a vanished time'.

Hardcover. dj. First American Edition, First Printing. Quarto, 192 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good minus dust jacket. Spine is black and multicolored with white lettering. Dust jacket protected with a mylar covering. Mild bumping to head and tail of spine. Mild bumping to edges of dust jacket. Mild rubbing to dust jacket. Text block clean. Shelved in Textiles. 1416429. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.…

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 647 pages. 9.00x6.00x1.50 inches. In Stock.