Book

Traditional jewelry of India

by  Oppi Untracht

Table Of Contents

  • Introducing traditional Indian jewelry
  • Origins: early ornament
  • Body decoration and marking
  • Natural materials
  • String ornaments
  • Animal ornament: materials and subjects
  • Naga adornment: remnants of neolithic times
  • Formulating the Indian jewelry tradition
  • Rosaries of India
  • The hardstone-bead trade
  • Amulets: semiotic symbols of supernatural power
  • Tibetan ornaments: sub-himalayan jewelry
  • Marriage and jewelry
  • Unique vernacular ornaments
  • Indian jewelry typology: from head to toe
  • Signet rings: sigillographic power symbols
  • Arsi: the right-thumb mirror ring
  • The hololithic archer's thumb ring
  • Gold and silver: markers' means, users' obsession
  • Gole fever
  • Raw forms of precious metals
  • The Indian goldsmith
  • Distinctive goldsmith techniques
  • Gemstones
  • Nava-ratna: a celestial palladium
  • The five maharatnani gemstones
  • Synthetic gemstones
  • Gemstones color symbolism and gem therapy
  • The mughal jewelry tradition
  • Mughal ceremony and jewelry in miniature paintings
  • Regal and rural jewelry: polarity and hybrid developments
  • Euro-Indian and Indo-European jewelry: a cross-cultural exchange
  • Early exhanges
  • Western oriental-design imperialism
  • Western jewelry and Indo-European jewelry

Subject

Jewelry

Details

Published New York : Thames & Hudson, 1997,
Language English
Material 431 p.
ISBN 9780500287491
Location
NK 7376 U618 2008
TCDC Khon Kaen - Closed Stack

Related To This Item

สื่ออื่นๆ ที่เกี่ยวข้อง

You May Also Like

แนะนำสื่ออื่นๆ ที่น่าสนใจ

Your Recent Views

สื่ออื่นๆ ที่คุณเพิ่งดู