Silver Treasures from the Land of Sheba DRAMA / Anthologies (multiple authors)

Silver Treasures from the Land of Sheba DRAMA / Anthologies (multiple authors)The first illustrated study of ethnic silver jewelry in Yemen, by an expert researcher and collector, new in paperback Silver Treasures from the Land of Sheba documents a disappearing artistic and cultural tradition with over three hundred photographs showing individual pieces, rare images of women wearing their jewelry with traditional dress, and the various regions in Yemen where the author did her field research. Ransoms descriptions of the people

she reflectively engages in a philosophical discussion of the lived experience of illness alongside an examination of how language and cultural constructions influence and represent this experience in a variety of forms

his impact on current ethnographic research practices and the use in current research of such Hughesian concepts as master status

Gangbangers were so alienated from the larger society that they reinvented something very similar to tribal-warrior cultures right in the heart of American cities

Huge open-air temples served the cult of Aten

making it possible to grow hybrids with longer vegetation periods and greater yield potential

from the eighteenth-century to the present day

is described

to add much-needed critical discussion of Kren's legacy

which is widely taught in European and North American universities

Part 1 of this volume reviews advances in gene editing techniques such as insertion-based genome edits

Football has an integrity problem

including contributions on Qur'anic manuscripts