Faces Around The World

Author : Margo DeMello
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1598846183
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Faces around the World written by Margo DeMello and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2012-02-14 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a comprehensive examination of the human face, providing fascinating information from biological, cultural, and social perspectives. Our faces identify who we are—not only what we look like and what ethnicities we belong to, but they can also identify what religions we practice and what personal ideologies we have. This one-of-a-kind A–Z reference explores the ways we change, beautify, and adorn our faces to create our personalities and identities. In addition to covering the basics such as the anatomical structure and function of parts of the human face, the entries examine how the face is viewed around the world, allowing students to easily draw connections and differences between various cultures around the world. Readers will learn about a wide variety of topics, including identity in different cultures; religious beliefs; folklore; extreme beautification; the "evil eye;" scarification; facial piercing and facial tattooing masks; social views about beauty including cosmetic surgery and makeup; how gender, class and sexuality play a role in our understanding of the face; and skin, eye, mouth, nose, and ear diseases and disorders. This encyclopedia is ideal for high school and undergraduate students studying anthropology, anatomy, gender, religion, and world cultures.

Author : Margo DeMello
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 743 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Faces around the World written by Margo DeMello and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2012-02-14 with total page 743 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a comprehensive examination of the human face, providing fascinating information from biological, cultural, and social perspectives. Our faces identify who we are—not only what we look like and what ethnicities we belong to, but they can also identify what religions we practice and what personal ideologies we have. This one-of-a-kind A–Z reference explores the ways we change, beautify, and adorn our faces to create our personalities and identities. In addition to covering the basics such as the anatomical structure and function of parts of the human face, the entries examine how the face is viewed around the world, allowing students to easily draw connections and differences between various cultures around the world. Readers will learn about a wide variety of topics, including identity in different cultures; religious beliefs; folklore; extreme beautification; the "evil eye;" scarification; facial piercing and facial tattooing masks; social views about beauty including cosmetic surgery and makeup; how gender, class and sexuality play a role in our understanding of the face; and skin, eye, mouth, nose, and ear diseases and disorders. This encyclopedia is ideal for high school and undergraduate students studying anthropology, anatomy, gender, religion, and world cultures.

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ISBN 13 : 9780976501800
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Faces of the World written by and published by . This book was released on 2007-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lifetime project, this book contains vivid, eye-catching photographs of the many friends that Al Sadpour has made during his over thirty years of traveling the globe, at times to its most remote areas. Influenced by the inimitable Yousuf Karsh, Al has adopted his mentor's philosphy of focusing on those great in heart, mind and spirit, be they famous or humble. Photographed in their own environments, the very human subjects here reflect extreme diversity in ages and ethnic backgrounds -- yet a common theme runs through each of the pictures: the uniqueness of the Human Face.

Author : Margo DeMello
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781785394690
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Faces Around the World written by Margo DeMello and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a comprehensive examination of the human face, providing fascinating information from biological, cultural, and social perspectives.

Author : Namwali Serpell
Publisher : Undelivered Lectures
ISBN 13 : 9781945492433
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stranger Faces written by Namwali Serpell and published by Undelivered Lectures. This book was released on 2020-09-29 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Speculative essays that probe the mythology of the face by the author of The Old Drift

Author : Sasha Maslov
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 1616896132
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Veterans written by Sasha Maslov and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2017-05-30 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ichiro Sudan trained to be a kamikaze. Roscoe Brown was a commander in the Tuskegee Airmen, the first African American military aviators. Charin Singh, a farmer from Delhi, spent seven years as a Japanese prisoner of war and was not sent home until four years after the war ended. Uli John lost an arm serving in the German army but ultimately befriended former enemy soldiers as part of a network of veterans—"people who fought in the war and know what war really means." These are some of the faces and stories in the remarkable Veterans, the outcome of a worldwide project by Sasha Maslov to interview and photograph the last surviving combatants from World War II. Soldiers, support staff, and resistance fighters candidly discuss wartime experiences and their lifelong effects in this unforgettable, intimate record of the end of a cataclysmic chapter in world history and tribute to the members of an indomitable generation. Veterans is also a meditation on memory, human struggle, and the passage of time.

Author : Julie Pugeat
Publisher : Phaidon Press
ISBN 13 : 9781838661588
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How Old Am I? written by Julie Pugeat and published by Phaidon Press. This book was released on 2021-03-04 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A first-ever children's visual reference book on age -- and a unique celebration of the diversity of humankind around the globe For young children, the concept of age is abstract when they don't have a relatable context... until now! This book showcases the faces and life stories of 100 people from around the world in numerical order, from a one-year-old to a centenarian, giving children a reference point for each age. Striking close-up black-and-white portraits are paired with read-aloud text that shares personal experiences, wishes, memories, and emotions, leaving readers with an appreciation and understanding of the ageing process. Ages 4-8

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Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Around the World written by and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Stanley J. Leiken
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781388300722
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Faces Around the World-V2 written by Stanley J. Leiken and published by . This book was released on 2018-04-29 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his travels around the globe over the last 60 years, from Albania to Zimbabwe, Stanley Leiken has focused his camera on people of many races, religions and backgrounds. His revealing portraits of citizens from the smallest settlements to the largest countries invite you to visit with him, whether they live next door or thousands of miles away.

Author : Ethan Hubbard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780829811698
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Face of a Woman written by Ethan Hubbard and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the spring of 1978, nearing my thirty-seventh year and determined to bring a deeper sense of fulfillment into my life, I sold my house and land in northern Vermont and began spending as much time as possible with rural and indigenous people. "The different cultures proved to be empowering teachers.... Each village, each family, reflected new ways of living.... The Inuit, who gave their babies away to those with none, taught me unconditional love. The Native Americans held a reverence for the natural world, Grandfather Sky and Mother Earth. The Maoris knew the joy of singing. The Australian Aborigines believed that the dream world was more real than the ordinary world.... The Samoans believed that whoever appeared on their doorstep became family". -- from the Preface Peaceful, wise, filled with life and love in a world fraught with strife and despair -- such are the faces you will meet in these two volumes. With his eloquent pairings of image and word, each telling its own rich story, Ethan Hubbard brilliantly captures the connectedness of people from the farthest reaches of the world. Uplifting, refreshing, enlightening, these books reveal gentleness and strength, laughter and hope -- the true face of humanity.