Tattooed Mountain Women and Spoon Boxes of Daghestan

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  • Author : Robert Chenciner
  • Release Date : 2006
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  • Genre : Art
  • Pages : 100
  • ISBN 13 :
  • File Size : 5,5 MB
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Tattooed Mountain Women and Spoon Boxes of Daghestan by Robert Chenciner PDF Summary

Book Description: Beneath the rural Islamic society in ancient villages perched among the Great Causasus Mountains, animist tattoos on women and decorations on ritual spoon boxes share symbols that are believed to protect the heart and the family. Three experts have recorded this system of folk medicine.

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