Textile Masterpieces of Ancient Peru, by James W. Reid
Author : James W. Reid
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Page : 73 pages
File Size : 50,1 MB
Release : 1986
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Author : James W. Reid
Publisher :
Page : 73 pages
File Size : 50,1 MB
Release : 1986
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Author : James W. Reid
Publisher :
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 46,39 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Indian textile fabrics
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Essays on the textiles and their historical background and iconography, followed by color plates.
Author : Thomas Gibson Fine Art Ltd
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Page : 82 pages
File Size : 38,76 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Featherwork
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Author : José Antonio de Lavalle
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Page : 380 pages
File Size : 12,3 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Indian art
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Author : Richard J. King
Publisher : University of New Hampshire Press
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 24,3 MB
Release : 2013-09-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 1611684749
Behold the cormorant: silent, still, cruciform, and brooding; flashing, soaring, quick as a snake. Evolution has crafted the only creature on Earth that can migrate the length of a continent, dive and hunt deep underwater, perch comfortably on a branch or a wire, walk on land, climb up cliff faces, feed on thousands of different species, and live beside both fresh and salt water in a vast global range of temperatures and altitudes, often in close proximity to man. Long a symbol of gluttony, greed, bad luck, and evil, the cormorant has led a troubled existence in human history, myth, and literature. The birds have been prized as a source of mineral wealth in Peru, hunted to extinction in the Arctic, trained by the Japanese to catch fish, demonized by Milton in Paradise Lost, and reviled, despised, and exterminated by sport and commercial fishermen from Israel to Indianapolis, Toronto to Tierra del Fuego. In The DevilÕs Cormorant, Richard King takes us back in time and around the world to show us the history, nature, ecology, and economy of the worldÕs most misunderstood waterfowl.
Author : James W. Reid
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Page : 309 pages
File Size : 30,63 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Indian textile fabrics
ISBN : 9786034532403
Author : Helaine Silverman
Publisher : G. K. Hall
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 32,37 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Art
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Author : Andrea M. Heckman
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 16,80 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780826329349
The Quechua people of southern Peru are both agriculturalists and herders who maintain large herds of alpacas and llamas. But they are also weavers, and it is through weaving that their cultural traditions are passed down over the generations. Owing to the region's isolation, the textile symbols, forms of clothing, and technical processes remain strongly linked to the people's environment and their ancestors. Heckman's photographs convey the warmth and vitality of the Quechua people and illustrate how the land is intricately woven into their lives and their beliefs. Quechua weavers in the mountainous regions near Cuzco, Peru, produce certain textile forms and designs not found elsewhere in the Andes. Their textiles are a legacy of their Andean ancestors. Andrea Heckman has devoted more than twenty years to documenting and analyzing the ways Andean beliefs persist over time in visual symbols embedded in textiles and portrayed in rituals. Her primary focus is the area around the sacred peak of Ausangate, in southern Peru, some eighty-five miles southeast of the former Inca capital of Cuzco. The core of this book is an ethnographic account of the textiles and their place in daily life that considers how the form and content of Quechua patterns and designs pass stories down and preserve traditions as well as how the ritual use of textiles sustain a sense of community and a connection to the past. Heckman concludes by assessing the influences of the global economy on indigenous Quechua, who maintain their own worldview within the larger fabric of twentieth-century cultural values and hence have survived everything from Latin American militarism to a tidal wave of post-modern change.
Author : Thor Hanson
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 31,16 MB
Release : 2011-05-31
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0465023460
As seen on PBS's American Spring Live, one of America's great nature-writers explores the magic and science of feathers Feathers are an evolutionary marvel: aerodynamic, insulating, beguiling. They date back more than 100 million years. Yet their story has never been fully told. In Feathers, biologist Thor Hanson details a sweeping natural history, as feathers have been used to fly, protect, attract, and adorn through time and place. Applying the research of paleontologists, ornithologists, biologists, engineers, and even art historians, Hanson asks: What are feathers? How did they evolve? What do they mean to us? Engineers call feathers the most efficient insulating material ever discovered, and they are at the root of biology's most enduring debate. They silence the flight of owls and keep penguins dry below the ice. They have decorated queens, jesters, and priests. And they have inked documents from the Constitution to the novels of Jane Austen. Feathers is a captivating and beautiful exploration of this most enchanting object.
Author : Sotheby's (Firm)
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Page : 182 pages
File Size : 25,16 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Art
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