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Siwa
- Jewelry, Costume, and Life in an Egyptian Oasis
Engelsk Paperback
Siwa
- Jewelry, Costume, and Life in an Egyptian Oasis
Engelsk Paperback

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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.

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
248
ISBN-13:
9789774166815
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
9774166817
Udg. Dato:
19 apr 2015
Længde:
18mm
Bredde:
232mm
Højde:
153mm
Forlag:
The American University in Cairo Press
Oplagsdato:
19 apr 2015
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