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This book documents a disappearing artistic and cultural tradition with over three hundred photographs showing individual pieces, rare images of women wearing their jewelry with traditional dress, and the various regions in Yemen where the author did her field research. Ransom's descriptions of the people she met and befriended, and her exploration of the significance of a woman's handmade jewelry with its attributes of power, protection, beauty, and personal identity, are a rich source of information that will appeal to ethnic jewelry fans, ethnographers, jewelry designers, and art historians. Amulet cases, hair ornaments, bridal headdresses, earrings, necklaces, ankle and wrist bracelets are all beautifully photographed in intricate detail, interspersed with the author's own photographs of the women who shared their stories and their hospitality with her.
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Subjects
Silver jewelry, Clothing, Yemenis, Jewelry, ancient, Yemen, antiquities, Jewelry, Dress accessories, Clothing and dressPlaces
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Silver Treasures from the Land of Sheba: Regional Yemeni Jewelry
2023, American University in Cairo Press
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1649033338 9781649033338
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Silver treasures from the land of Sheba: regional Yemeni jewelry
2014, The American University in Cairo Press
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9774166000 9789774166006
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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