Textiles in Indian Ocean societies /
This is the first dedicated book to concentrate on textiles as a major commodity, and primary indicator of status, wealth and identity in Indian Ocean regions.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Routledge Curzon,
2005.
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Colección: | Indian Ocean series ;
4. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Rome and India : early Indian cotton textiles from Berenike, Red Sea coast of Egypt / John Peter Wild and Felicity Wild
- Far-flung fabrics
- Indian textiles in ancient maritime trade / Himanshu Prabha Ray
- 'Portuguese' carpets from Khorasan, Persia / Steven Cohen
- Textile as commodity, dress as text : Swahili kanga and women's statements / David Parkin
- The kofia tradition of Zanzibar : the implicit and explicit discourses of men's head-dress in an Indian Ocean society / Zulfikar Hirji
- Ze mañeva aze : looking for patterns in Malagasy cloth / Sarah Fee
- Cosmopolitan tastes and indigenous designs
- virtual cloth in a Javanese candi / Mary-Louise Totton
- Textiles of Jambi (Sumatra) and the Indian Ocean trade / Fiona Kerlogue
- Moving between cultures : textiles as a source of innovation in Kedang, eastern Indonesia / Ruth Barnes.