Margaret m vale (9 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition. (xiv) 153 pp. Black boards lettered in gilt on the spine; dark blue endpapers; headband. Lightly rubbed on the corners of the dustjacket; small ink mark on the lower edge of the text block; no interior markings; price intact. Authors relive their most embarrassing moments. This anthology contains: Foreword by Jack McClelland; My New Yorker Stories by Ted Allan; A Bedtime Story by Charlotte Vale Allen; A Flying Start by Margaret Atwood; Woman Talk by Jo Anne Williams Bennett; A Delicate Transaction by D. M. Clark; Where Is My Book by Matt Cohen; And That's the Way it Was by Peter Desbarats; Sometimes One Cook Is Too Many by Howard Engel; A Light Breakfast by Helen English; A Star is Born by Joy Fielding; Return of the Native by Sylvia Fraser; Only on Sunday by James Houston; A Total Misfit by Robert Hunter; No Exit by Martin Knelman; A Welcome Home Party by R. D. Lawrence; Distinguished Professor Meets Careerist Slimeball by Elliott Leyton; The Fish Had a Field Day by Roy MacGregor; The Girl with the Caribbean Curls by Garry Marchant; Interlude at La Guardia by W. O. Mitchell; They'll Die Laughing by Farley Mowat; Breaking Ice by Alice Munro; Waltzing Matilda by Knowlton Nash; The Burning Lighter by Alan Pearson; Just Another Pretty Face by Edward O. Phillips; Oh I Know That One by Garfield Reeves-Stevens; An Afternoon's Diversion by Nancy-Gay Rotstein; Barking Up the Wrong Canoe by Walter Stewart; The Midnight Prowler by Stuart Trueman; Common Ground by Eric Wright; Mortification on the Promo Trail by Tim Wynne-Jones; Fothing at the Mouth by Larry Zolf; Afterword by Margaret Visser. Size: 8vo. Book. …

Paperback. Condizione: New. Siwa is a remote oasis deep in the heart of the Egyptian desert near the border with Libya. Until an asphalt road was built to the Mediterranean coast in the 1980s, its only links to the outside world were by arduous camel tracks. As a result of this isolation, Siwa developed a unique culture manifested in its crafts of basketry, pottery, and embroidery and in its styles of costume and silverwork. The most visible and celebrated example of this was the silver jewelery that was worn by women in abundance at weddings and other ceremonies. Based on conversations with women and men in the oasis and with reference to old texts, this book describes the jewelery and costume at this highpoint of Siwan culture against the backdrop of its date gardens and springs, social life, and dramatic history. It places the women's jewelery, costume, and embroidery into social perspective, and describes how they were used in ceremonies and everyday life and how they were related to their beliefs and attitudes to the world.The book also describes how, in the second half of the twentieth century, the arrival of the road and of television brought drastic change, and the oasis was exposed to the styles and fashions of the outside world and how the traditional silver ornaments were gradually replaced by gold.…

paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Very Good paperback with light shelfwear - NICE! Standard-sized.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Condizione: Brand New. 231 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Condizione: New. In English.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Siwa is a remote oasis deep in the heart of the Egyptian desert near the border with Libya. Until an asphalt road was built to the Mediterranean coast in the 1980s, its only links to the outside world were by arduous camel tracks. As a result of this isolation, Siwa developed a unique culture manifested in its crafts of basketry, pottery, and embroidery and in its styles of costume and silverwork. The most visible and celebrated example of this was the silver jewelery that was worn by women in abundance at weddings and other ceremonies. Based on conversations with women and men in the oasis and with reference to old texts, this book describes the jewelery and costume at this highpoint of Siwan culture against the backdrop of its date gardens and springs, social life, and dramatic history. It places the women's jewelery, costume, and embroidery into social perspective, and describes how they were used in ceremonies and everyday life and how they were related to their beliefs and attitudes to the world. The book also describes how, in the second half of the twentieth century, the arrival of the road and of television brought drastic change, and the oasis was exposed to the styles and fashions of the outside world and how the traditional silver ornaments were gradually replaced by gold.…

Condizione: New. &Uumlber den AutorMargaret M. Vale has an MA in social anthropology from the University of London. She has traveled extensively and lived for long periods in the Middle East, where she studied and collected desert jewelry and textiles. .

Paperback. Condizione: New. Siwa is a remote oasis deep in the heart of the Egyptian desert near the border with Libya. Until an asphalt road was built to the Mediterranean coast in the 1980s, its only links to the outside world were by arduous camel tracks. As a result of this isolation, Siwa developed a unique culture manifested in its crafts of basketry, pottery, and embroidery and in its styles of costume and silverwork. The most visible and celebrated example of this was the silver jewelery that was worn by women in abundance at weddings and other ceremonies. Based on conversations with women and men in the oasis and with reference to old texts, this book describes the jewelery and costume at this highpoint of Siwan culture against the backdrop of its date gardens and springs, social life, and dramatic history. It places the women's jewelery, costume, and embroidery into social perspective, and describes how they were used in ceremonies and everyday life and how they were related to their beliefs and attitudes to the world.The book also describes how, in the second half of the twentieth century, the arrival of the road and of television brought drastic change, and the oasis was exposed to the styles and fashions of the outside world and how the traditional silver ornaments were gradually replaced by gold.…