The Secret Museum of Mankind - Brossura

Stiffler, David

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0879059125 ISBN 13: 9780879059125

Casa editrice: Gibbs Smith, 1999

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6X9In, 576Pp, 1000+ Black & White Photos Travel Four Continents and The Islands of The Seas Through The Pages of This Fascinating Book, Originally Published Nearly A Century Ago. Illustrated With Over A Thousand Black-And-White Photos, The Secret Museum of Mankind Offers A Glimpse Into The Lives of Hundreds of Cultures of Mankind In Nativve Dress, At Work and At Leisure. From Masked Warrior Tribes of New Guinea and Decoratively Intricate Scars of Congo Natives To Heavily Veiled Women of Islan and Incredible Postures of Hindu Ascetics, You Will Be Captivated By The Range of Dress, Body Decor, Traditions, Rituals, and Religions Displayed Within Its Pages.< BR>

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Open up The Secret Museum of Mankind and discover a lost world--the fading faces of the indigenous humanity that once covered the globe. Within these pages, the curious armchair adventurer will be taken on a visual tour of the native cultures of America, Africa, Asia, Europe, and the islands of the seas as they existed upon the book's first publication nearly a century ago.
Over a thousand black-and-white photographs with captions that reflect the unabashed curiosity and marked sensationalism of the early-twentieth-century adventurer transport the reader to another era.
Here revealed are the astonishing variety of rituals, religions, customs, physical decorations, and dress of the world's native cultures. One cannot help but be spellbound by the elaborate costuming, the intricate and painstaking bodily manipulations, the fascinating practices of he cultures whose native expressions and lifestyles have unfortunately suffered at the destructive advancing hands of the twentieth century.

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• Editore: Gibbs Smith
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0879059125
• ISBN 13: 9780879059125
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 576