A Window on Africa: Ethiopian Portraits
by Silvester, Hans
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 050051562X
- ISBN 13
- 9780500515624
- Seller
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Port Elizabeth, South Africa
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About This Item
(New York: Thames & Hudson, 2011) 9780500515624. Slim 4to; original red boards with lettering to spine and publisher's device to upper board; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pp. 143 + (i); full-page colour portraits. Fine condition. "The village of Kibish lies in the lower Omo Valley on the borders of Ethiopia, Kenya and Sudan. Far from any city and with an unforgiving climate, it is nonetheless a place where traditional lifestyles meet the contemporary world. This book is a beguiling portrait of its people, seen through an unusual lens - that of a simple window frame. From painted, marked and scarified tribesmen to tradesmen with their tools and farmers with their animals, this collection is a priceless record of a unique and increasingly fragile way of life, one threatened by conflict, tourism and the rapidly encroaching twenty-first century." .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA (ZA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 12275
- Title
- A Window on Africa: Ethiopian Portraits
- Author
- Silvester, Hans
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 050051562X
- ISBN 13
- 9780500515624
- Publisher
- (New York: Thames & Hudson, 2011) 9780500515624
- Place of Publication
- London:
- This edition first published
- 2011-04
- Keywords
- Portraiture. Photography. Tribes. Assimilation. Migration Anthropology
- Bookseller catalogs
- Anthropology;
Terms of Sale
Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA
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About the Seller
Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA
Biblio member since 2018
Port Elizabeth
About Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA
Christison Rare Books operates as a mail order business, based in Port Elizabeth. We are members of IOBA and SABDA. Whereas we stock thousands of books on a wide variety of subjects, our focus has always been on SE Africa - its peoples, wildlife and history. The store is managed by Lindsay Christison. Although we do not run an open book shop, prospective customers who would like to examine items described in our on-line list of stock are welcome to make an appointment.
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