Bamboo and Rattan: Traditional Uses and Beliefs, Images of Asia, 1992, Very Good hardcover

Piper, Jacqueline. Singapore: Oxford University Press, 1992.

English, Very Good, HC, 12mo, 7 7/8" x 5 3/8", 116 pp. 

ISBN: 0195889983

Hardcover in pictorial paper. Slight cocking to spine, light foxing, and pencil annotation to front endpaper. 116 pp. Includes 24 full-color and 30 black-and-white images, with lithographs, drawings, and photographs, an illustrative figure, and endpaper maps. From the back panel: "'Images of Asia' offers a range of titles covering aspects of life and culture in East Asia. Each book in the series combines an introductory text, written for the non-specialist reader by an authority on the subject, with extensive illustrations both in colour and black-and-white." This volume covers the varied use of the key natural resources, bamboo and rattan, in South-East Asian cultures, particularly how they weave into everyday use, from crafted tools and basketry to building materials and important cultural ceremonies.