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DE SMET, P.A.G.M., Different truths. Ethnomedicine in postcards, Amsterdam 2009. Softcover 30 x 24 cm. 216 pag. met ca. 250 afb. "All over the world, native peoples have been looking for ways to prevent illness and to cope with such misfortune, should it happen to them anyway. This book explores supernatural and natural healing practices all over the world. It illustrates the global importance of these themes by showing a selection of 270 colonial postcards in their original colours, from the early days of the 20th century. These cards are a rich source of visual information about native health and healing, which has been largely overlooked so far. The author's examination is guided by the principle that native therapies are often directed at the perceived cause of an illness. This cause is often personal in tribal settings (e.g., an evil sorcerer, spirit or ancestor) and impersonal in great medical systems (e.g., an imbalance of basic body components). The book also covers the portrayal of Western folk medicine, colonial health care and tropical pathology on early postcards. The latter topic invites the modern reader to work out his or her personal response to these often penetrating images.
Before reviewing postcard images of native healers and healing methods, the book investigates their meanings for those who produced and collected them in the past and for those who collect and study them today. This introduction makes clear that colonial postcards reveal as much about Ourselves as about the Others. It also cautions that pictorial postcards may be less truthful."
€ 34.50
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Beukers,A.(p.Theroux intr.), Exotic Postcards. The lure of Distant Lands, Londen 2007. Hardcover 26 x 26 cm. 208 pag. met 200 kleurafb. "Haunting postcard images of the non-Western world from a century ago. The antique postcards depicted here were acquired in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by Western tourists, business people, traders, and colonialists. The circumstances in which the cards were sent, and the details of those who sent them, are largely lost. Yet the audience for collecting them has enjoyed a spectacular growth in recent years and includes not only those with the collecting instinct or the desire to travel but also artists, photographic historians, fashion and jewelry specialists, and designers everywhere. Once it was believed that by taking someone's portrait you stole that person's soul. Here, the human subjects have a powerful presence because they express a deep-seated connection with the land and customs that gave them their identities. Their stories are implicit in their eyes, their costumes, and their postures. Reproduced with complete fidelity, these postcards take us on a magical journey across the world in five travelogues, depicting Asia, the Arab Lands, Africa, the Americas, and Oceania."
€ 39.50
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KÜMIN, B & KUMSCHICK, S, Gruss aus der Ferne. Fremde Welten auf frühen Ansichtkarten, Zúrich 2001. Softcover 32 x 23 cm. 119 pag. met 102 afb. CONTENT:
€ 20.00
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LOUREIRO, J., Macau Antique Postcards, Lisbon. Hard cover size: 30 x 24 cm. 144 pag. with 205 postcards/photographs in colour (dating from 1890 to 1965). Text in Portuguese and in English
€ 29.50
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Mail from 1900 to 2000, China 2004. Soft cover, oblong 21 x 16,5 cm. 203 pag.with 50 old postcards. Text only in Chinese.
€ 19.50
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CHEAH JIN SENG, MALAYA 500 early postcards, Singapore 2008. Soft cover 23 x 25 cm. 288 pag. with 500 early postcards in colour photographs. CONTENT:
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Old Postcards of Peking, China 2008. soft cover 21 x 28 cm. 255 pag. with 250 postcards in colour. Captions in Chinese and English.
€ 49.50
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MONTAGUE, J.E., Picture Postcards of Cambodia 1900-1950, Bangkok 2010. Soft cover 30 x 21 cm. 327 pag. with ca. 250 photographs of postcards some in colour. ISBN 978-974-480-119-7 CONTENT[chapters]:
Bibliograhy List of postcard editors and publishers
€ 59.50
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LOUREIRA, J., Postais antigos da Ilha de Mocambique & da Ilha do Ibo, Lissabon. Hard cover 30,5 x 24 cm. 128 pag. with 214 postcardsin colour dating from 1900 to 1998. Text in Portuguese.
€ 29.50
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LOUREIRO, J., Postais Antigos e Outras Memórias de Timor, Lisbon. Hard cover size: 30 x 24 cm. 152 pag. with 254 postcards/photographs in colour (dating from 1910 to 1970). Text in Portuguese.
€ 29.50
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EVANS, P.C., The early postcards of the British East Africa Protectorate/Kenya, 2003. Soft cover 21 x 29,5 cm. 203 pag.with black and white photo's.
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EVANS, P.C., The early postcards of Uganda, 2003. Soft cover 21 x 29,5 cm. 88 pag.with black and white photo's. The postcards are grouped by the different photographers and photo studios. PHOTOGRAPHERS(Studio's):
€ 35.00
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EVANS, P.C., The early postcards of Zanzibar, 2005. Soft cover 21 x 29,5 cm. 232 pag.with 23 pag. colour photo's the rest in black and white. The postcards are grouped by the different photographers and photo studios. PHOTOGRAPHERS(Studio's):
€ 49.50
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