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Siwa

Jewelry, Costume, and Life in an Egyptian Oasis

By: Margaret M. Vale

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Siwa

Jewelry, Costume, and Life in an Egyptian Oasis

By: Margaret M. Vale

Siwa is a remote oasis deep in the heart of the Egyptian desert near the border with Libya. Until an asphalt road was built to the Mediterranean coast in the 1980s, its only links to the outside world were by arduous camel tracks. As a result of this isolation, Siwa developed a unique culture manifested in its crafts of basketry, pottery, and embroidery and in its styles of costume and silverwork. The most visible and celebrated example of this was the silver jewelery that was worn by women in abundance at weddings and other ceremonies. Based on conversations with women and men in the oasis and with reference to old texts, this book describes the jewelery and costume at this highpoint of Siwan culture against the backdrop of its date gardens and springs, social life, and dramatic history. It places the women's jewelery, costume, and embroidery into social perspective, and describes how they were used in ceremonies and everyday life and how they were related to their beliefs and attitudes to the world. The book also describes how, in the second half of the twentieth century, the arrival of the road and of television brought drastic change, and the oasis was exposed to the styles and fashions of the outside world and how the traditional silver ornaments were gradually replaced by gold.

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American University in Cairo Press

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ISBN 10

161797644X

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9781617976445

New Directions in Soviet Social Thought: An Anthology

An Anthology

By: Murray Yanowitch,A. Schultz,M. Vale

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New Directions in Soviet Social Thought: An Anthology

An Anthology

By: Murray Yanowitch,A. Schultz,M. Vale

The essays in this volume illustrate the kind of expansionary logic that has characterized Soviet reformist thinking in the social sciences in the 1980s. The themes discussed show the wide-ranging and multidisciplinary nature of reformist currents in the Soviet Union.

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396

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Routledge

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1315492792

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9781315492797

The Shining City

By: Rena Marie Vale,Ross Winterbotham

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The Shining City

By: Rena Marie Vale,Ross Winterbotham

Armchair Fiction presents extra large editions of classic science fiction double novels. The first novel, “The Shining City” is grand futuristic adventure by Rena M. Vale. There was a deadly conflict between nature and science. Thor Larsen was an outsider—a “Northerner.” But he had left the wilds of the northern wilderness for a life dedicated to the greatest engineering feat of the modern age—the building of The Shining City, which was now a super-metropolis ruled by a cold scientific government. However, in spite of his staggering successes, Thor Larsen’s heart was heavy with the suspicion that his own son was a traitor to the city—but heavier still was the feeling that Thor himself had betrayed something even greater! Soon a war was brewing between the raw forces of nature and the technological power of hard, emotionless science. The second novel is a tale of revenge on Mars, “The Red Planet,” by sci-fi veteran Russ Winterbotham. When Gail Loring chose Bill Drake to be her husband—in name only—for the duration of the flight to Mars, she didn’t know that she had just signed his death warrant. Jealous Dr. Spartan, the leader of the expedition, swore to get revenge and force Gail to share his maniacal plan for power. Bound together in space, five men and a woman strained against the powerful tug of twisted emo¬tions and secret ambitions. But all plans were forgotten when they landed on the Red Planet and encountered the Martians—half animal, half vegetable—with acid for blood and radar for sight. When the Martians launched an assault against the spaceship, linking their electrical energy in an awesome display of power, Spartan realized that this was the perfect moment for personal revenge—and touched off his own diabolical plan of destruction against his fellow crewmen.

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