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Author Name: Manfred Bachmann and Claus Hansmann
Title: Dolls the wide world Over
Binding: Hard Cover
Book Condition: Good
Jacket Condition: Poor
Publisher: Crown 1973
Seller ID: 000204
Dolls the wide world over: An historical account by Manfred Bachmann and Claus Hansmann translated by Ruth Michaelis - Jena with the collaboration of Patrick Murray MBE, FSA (SCOT) Curator of the Museum of Childhood, Edinburgh Hardcover with jacket, published by Crown publishers, 204 pages, copyright 1973, very good condition "Dolls - the Wide World Over by Manfred Bachmann, over 150 Photographs by Claus Hansmann The earliest dolls were connected with cult and religion as idols, fetishes, and amulets and were often used in the initiation of the young into the customs and rites of the tribe. But since the latter Egyptian dynasties, evidence exists to show that dolls have been used as playthings by the Chinese, Greeks, Romans and virtually every race in the world. Today, dolls are recognized by all those concerned in education, by sociologists and by ethnologists as playing a vital part in child's upbringing, influencing the formation of its attitudes to the family and to the rest of society and assisting the development of its creative ability. Dolls - the Wide World Over traces the eventful history and development of the doll form the crude, home-made objects used by the primitive tribes of Africa, America and Asia to the technically sophisticated dolls available in the shops of the civilized world. With the aid of more than 150 illustrations the book shows how different types of doll, made by many processes out of materials as varied as clay, stone, wood, bone, straw, metal, paper, and plastic, have always mirrored the realities of the society from which they spring, and the author suggests that the intricate and elaborately dressed dolls of today may be aimed more at the demands of an enormous tourist market than at the needs of children for playthings that stimulate the imagination. among the many subsidiary topics mentioned in this always interesting book are dolls' houses, lay figures, fashion dolls, Golliwogs and Teddy bears, Japanese Doll Festivals, and dolls in literature and as an art form..."
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