Drower e s lady ethel drower (1 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. No Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp ix, 214. 36 illustrations. By the anthropologist Lady Drower (1879 - 1972). Uncommon. 'Perhaps none of the minorities of 'Iraq has caused more curiosity than the people called Yazidis, owing to their secret cult of the Peacock Angel, whom Moslem neighbours assert to be none other than Lucifer himself, Prince of all Evil. This book describes the life of these mountian tribesmen, as seen in a Yazidi village, the priests of hte cult, the dramatic Spring festival, and the hill sanctuaary of Shaikh 'Adi.' Head of spine slightly creased spine very slightly faded 1943 non authorial inscription on front end paper with black mark crossing out one detail of this (the location of a club) otherwise very good with clean text. .…