Imazighen : the vanishing traditions of Berber women / Margaret Courtney-Clarke.

By: Courtney-Clarke, Margaret, 1949-.

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BookPublisher: London : Thames and Hudson, 1996Description: xxiv, 192 p. : col. ill ; 28 cm. + hbk.ISBN: 0500017387.Subject(s): Berbers -- Social life and customs | Women, Africa, North -- Social life and customs -- Pictorial worksDDC classification: 305.4089933

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
General Lending	MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Lending	305.4089933 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		00054606

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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

This is a record of the Berber women whose way of life is being eroded as modern times and warfare encroaches.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Kirkus Book Review

The final volume in a trilogy celebrating the extraordinary traditional arts and crafts of African women. Photographer Courtney-Clarke traveled through the rugged mountains and deserts of North Africa to record the distinctive pottery, fabrics, rugs and other woven products, and murals created by Berber women. Journalist Geraldine Brooks contributes a narrative stressing the harsh lives most Berber women face and their remarkable resilience and love of color and craft. The 230 color photographs have a startling intimacy and vigor, portraying intricate designs on house walls and pottery; complex, serene, sophisticated patterns for rugs and fabrics; and the women themselves, weaving, working at kilns, tending families, or pausing for portraits. ($55.00; Oct. 1996; 216 pages; ISBN 0-517-59771-3)