palestinian costume and jewelry : yedida kalfon stillman

this beautifully illustrated book, a catalog of the santa fe, new mexico, museum of internetional folk art's collection of palestinian clothing and jewelry, present an overview palestinian history and traditional life. the author shows how costume reflects social mores and how jewelry explains and enhances status among the arab, christians and jews of palestine

yedida kalfon stillman - Professor of Jewish Studies and Middle Eastern Studies, and a world-renowned scholar of the Islamic and Jewish material culture of the Middle East and North Africa.