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Author Scarce, Jennifer M.

Title Domestic culture in the Middle East : an exploration of the household interior / Jennifer Scarce
Published Edinburgh : National Museums of Scotland ; Richmond, Surrey : Curzon Press, [1996]
©1996

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 MELB  747.2917671 Sca/Dci  AVAILABLE
Description 112 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm
Contents 1. The city -- 2. The house -- 3. The home -- 4. Home life -- 5. Social and public life
Summary Jennifer Scarce vividly brings to life the distinctive character of domestic spaces and activities in Turkey, Iran and Egypt. Richly illustrated, Domestic Culture in the Middle East recreates an environment dominated by textiles - rugs, hangings and superb embroidery - and explores a world which takes the reader from the bath-house to exquisite meals, from poetry to picnics by the Bosphorus
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (page 111) and index
Subject Decoration and ornament -- Middle East.
Families -- Middle East -- History.
Interior decoration -- Middle East.
Material culture -- Middle East -- History.
SUBJECT Middle East -- Civilization. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85090502
LC no. 97161216
ISBN 0700704604