Table of Contents

Continuity and change in Zulu beadwork; in praise of the Lord: new wine in old Wineskins; speaking with beads: Zulu bead making, bead colours, messages and meaning; new beadwork frontiers; Zulu bead sculptures: the African Art Centre in the 1970s and 1980

About the Author

Eleanor Preston-Whyte is a social anthropologist whose interest in Zulu beadwork dates from the 1960s when she undertook ethnographic research in the burgeoning craft markets that were beginning to line the highways to the north and south of the city of Durban. She is the author of a number of publications on the role of craftwork in informal money making and, in particular, on the part it has played in enabling Zulu women to build their own homes and educate generations of black children.