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Book of Babel, The - Words and the Way We See Things * pb
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Author: Nigel Lewis

The Book of Babel celebrates the creative confusion of the world's languages as they interact in overheard echoic words, muddled popular etymologies, and the mythic misunderstandings among cultures far apart in space and time.

Univ. of Iowa; 310 pp.; EN; pb

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Coaxing the Spirits to Dance - Art and Society in the Papuan Gulf of New Guinea * pb
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Authors: Robert Welsch et al.

Exploring the relationship between social life and artistic expression since the 19th century in one of the most important art-producing regions of Papua New Guinea, this book offers a presentation of painted and carved ancestor boards, masks, drums a.o.

Hood Museum, 2006; 104 pp.; EN; index; ills. b/w & col; pb

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In Arabian Nights - A Caravan of Moroccan Dreams * hb
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Author: Tahir Shah

Inspired by his family's long tradition of storytelling -We have this gift says his father, Protect it and it will protect you-, Shah frames his search for identity with traditional Arabian tales, but also with the stories of the men who tell them.

Bantam, 2008; 388 pp.; EN; ills. b/w; hb

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In Graancirkelkringen - Een etnologisch onderzoek naar verhalen uit de grenswetenschap * pb
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Auteur: Theo Meder

Mensenwerk, grappenmakerij of een boodschap van een buitenaardse beschaving. De verhalen die over graancirkels de ronde doen, lenen zich uitstekend voor een etnologische benadering. Meder heeft getuigenissen en waarnemingen opgetekend.

Salome, 2006; 416 pp.; NL; index; ills. b/w & col; pb

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Shape of Belief, The - African Art from the Dr. Michael R. Heide Collection * pb
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Authors: Mary Nooter Roberts et al.

Michael Heide was passionate collector of traditional West African art. This catalogue describes 70 ceremonial masks and other religious items from Sierra Leone, Nigeria, Mali and Cameroon.

Fine Arts Museum SF; 95 pp.; EN; ills. b/w & col; pb

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Worldwide History of Beads, The - Ancient, Ethnic, Contemporary * hb
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Author: Lois Sherr Dubin

Beads are among the most stunningly attractive and varied items of jewellery known to mankind. In this lavishly illustrated book Dubin presents the panoramic scope of these ubiquitous objects, unravels the mysteries of the rarest beads a.o.

Thames and Hudson, 2009; 395 pp.; EN; index; ills. b/w & col; hb

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Zwarte mensen, witte bergen * pb
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Auteur: H.A. Lorentz

In 1913 publiceerde Lorentz het verslag van de Zuid Nieuw-Guinea expeditie, Zwarte mensen, witte bergen, naar de eeuwige sneeuw van Nieuw Guinea, samen met Van Nouhuys en enkele Dajak-dragers.

Atlas, 2005; 270 pp.; NL; ills. b/w; pb

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