From Library Journal
Beads have played an important role in every major civilization
and have traveled widely as valuable and easily portable objects of
adornment. This comprehensive and visually stimulating history
focuses on the bead in its cultural context as personal decoration,
currency, status symbol, magical charm, and form of cultural
communication. Complementing the well-documented text are full-page
color photographs of beads from museums and private collections;
maps showing b
內容簡介:
In its original hardcover edition 1987, this remarkable book
was the first comprehensive history of beads ever published. It
includes several thousand examples of beads, beaded jewelry, and
beadwork representing 30,000 years of history and drawn from every
major culture and region of the world. Now largely unavailable in
hardcover and still the most authoritative book on the subject, it
is finally available in paperback at a very attractive price. For
thousands of years, beads have pl
關於作者:
Lois Sherr Dubin was trained as a landscape architect, and her
international practice enabled her to travel widely and to obtain
beads from numerous countries. She is also the author of North
American Indian Jewelry and Adornment: From Prehistory to the
Present. Dubin lives in New York City. --This text refers to the
Paperback edition