Shields : Africa, Southeast Asia and Oceania : from the collections of the Barbier-Mueller Museum
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Shields : Africa, Southeast Asia and Oceania : from the collections of the Barbier-Mueller Museum
Prestel, c2000
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  Niigata
  Toyama
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  Fukui
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  Nagano
  Gifu
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  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
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  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
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Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto Universityアジア専攻
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 242-251) and index
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Description
Since ancient times the shield has had a variety of uses whether as a defensive or more rarely offensive weapon or as a decorative or ritual object invested with symbolic meaning. Drawing on the collections of the Barbier-Mueller Museum in Geneva this book examines the literary and mythological aspects of shields from Africa, Southeast Asia and Oceania, placing them in historical context and interpreting them as beautiful objects with a language of their own.
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