Quilty
03-18-2005, 01:01 AM
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<td class="modulecell" colspan="2" width="80%" align="left">The History of Beads from 30,000 B.C. to the Present, Concise Edition</td>
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<td class="modulecell" width="5%" valign="top" align="left">Author</td>
<td colspan="2" class="modulecell" width="95%" align="left">Lois Sherr Dubin</td>
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<td colspan="2" class="modulecell" width="95%" align="left">not specific</td>
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<td colspan="2" class="modulecell" width="95%" align="left">all</td>
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<td colspan="3" class="modulecell" align="left">Dubin, Lois Sherr, The History of Beads from 30,000 B.C. to the Present, Concise Edition, Harry N. Abrams, Inc. NY. 1998.
ISB 0-8109-2617-2, soft cover, 9” x 11¾”, 136 pages.
Excerpts from the Introductory chapter…
[This book] “examines beads in twelve areas, attempting to identify certain features and patterns that are important to the story of beads. Different facets of the bead story are emphasized in each area. In North America, for example, the impact of European trade on the indigenous bead culture of the Great Lakes and Plains Indians is stressed. By contrast, in the chapter on India the pervasive role beads play in all aspects of life, secular and sacred, and the extraordinary continuity in beadmaking technology over the past 4,000 years are the overriding concepts.
“There are several perspectives from which beads might be looked at, but this book attempts to observe them primarily from cultural and historical viewpoints, to understand their importance in the lives of people in bead culture among geographic areas and historical eras.
“While this book seeks to explain similarities and differences in bead culture in terms of historical factors, it also recognizes certain universal features of beads and the handling of them that appear to cut across cultural differences. In the chapters that follow, broad commonalities in the creation of beaded adornment are identified that express certain basic human needs.
“We must look for primal causes in the wearing of beads. Some psychiatrists trace bead adornment to feelings of security connected with the eye and sight…. Eye beads were used to meet people’s age-old need for protection against malevolence – the “evil eye”… on the other hand [psychiatrist Robert Bross suggests] that the passion for beads may be connected to the longing for the tactile pleasures associated with breast-feeding and the nipple. Whether or not we accept his arguments, the power of beads is such that there must be hidden within them some meaning essential to us all.
“This volume will give the reader only an idea of the range of human creativity that has been applied to beads. It is a sampling of what people have done with this universal object, but it is hoped that the reader will come away with a sense of how deeply embedded the manufacture and use of beads have become in human society.”
This book is rich in beautiful colour photographs of beads and beadwork. It includes a fold-out colour chart that is a time line of bead history with a wealth of information summarized in reference notes that are also credited in the extensive bibliography, plus a bead shape table of typical bead shapes throughout the world. This is a very easy and enjoyable book to browse and is difficult to put down.
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<td class="modulecell" width="20%" valign="top" align="left">Title</td>
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<td class="modulecell" width="5%" valign="top" align="left">Author</td>
<td colspan="2" class="modulecell" width="95%" align="left">Lois Sherr Dubin</td>
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<td class="modulecell" width="5%" valign="top" align="left">Beading technique[s]</td>
<td colspan="2" class="modulecell" width="95%" align="left">not specific</td>
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<td class="modulecell" width="5%" valign="top" align="left">Bead types</td>
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<td colspan="2" class="modulecell" width="95%" align="left">all</td>
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<td colspan="3" class="modulecell" align="left">Dubin, Lois Sherr, The History of Beads from 30,000 B.C. to the Present, Concise Edition, Harry N. Abrams, Inc. NY. 1998.
ISB 0-8109-2617-2, soft cover, 9” x 11¾”, 136 pages.
Excerpts from the Introductory chapter…
[This book] “examines beads in twelve areas, attempting to identify certain features and patterns that are important to the story of beads. Different facets of the bead story are emphasized in each area. In North America, for example, the impact of European trade on the indigenous bead culture of the Great Lakes and Plains Indians is stressed. By contrast, in the chapter on India the pervasive role beads play in all aspects of life, secular and sacred, and the extraordinary continuity in beadmaking technology over the past 4,000 years are the overriding concepts.
“There are several perspectives from which beads might be looked at, but this book attempts to observe them primarily from cultural and historical viewpoints, to understand their importance in the lives of people in bead culture among geographic areas and historical eras.
“While this book seeks to explain similarities and differences in bead culture in terms of historical factors, it also recognizes certain universal features of beads and the handling of them that appear to cut across cultural differences. In the chapters that follow, broad commonalities in the creation of beaded adornment are identified that express certain basic human needs.
“We must look for primal causes in the wearing of beads. Some psychiatrists trace bead adornment to feelings of security connected with the eye and sight…. Eye beads were used to meet people’s age-old need for protection against malevolence – the “evil eye”… on the other hand [psychiatrist Robert Bross suggests] that the passion for beads may be connected to the longing for the tactile pleasures associated with breast-feeding and the nipple. Whether or not we accept his arguments, the power of beads is such that there must be hidden within them some meaning essential to us all.
“This volume will give the reader only an idea of the range of human creativity that has been applied to beads. It is a sampling of what people have done with this universal object, but it is hoped that the reader will come away with a sense of how deeply embedded the manufacture and use of beads have become in human society.”
This book is rich in beautiful colour photographs of beads and beadwork. It includes a fold-out colour chart that is a time line of bead history with a wealth of information summarized in reference notes that are also credited in the extensive bibliography, plus a bead shape table of typical bead shapes throughout the world. This is a very easy and enjoyable book to browse and is difficult to put down.
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