Format:
1 online resource (228 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780415297660
,
9780203644256
Series Statement:
Routledge Indian Ocean Series
Content:
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
Note:
Book Cover -- Half-Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Contributors -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 Rome and India: early Indian cotton textiles from Berenike, Red Sea coast of Egypt -- 2 Far-flung fabrics - Indian textiles in ancient maritime trade -- 3 'Portuguese' carpets from Khorasan, Persia -- 4 Textile as commodity, dress as text: Swahili kanga and women's statements -- 5 The kofia tradition of Zanzibar: the implicit and explicit discourses of men's head-dress in an Indian Ocean society -- 6 Ze mañeva aze: looking for patterns in Malagasy cloth -- 7 Cosmopolitan tastes and indigenous designs - virtual cloth in a Javanese candi -- 8 Textiles of Jambi (Sumatra) and the Indian Ocean trade -- 9 Moving between cultures: textiles as a source of innovation in Kedang, eastern Indonesia -- Bibliography -- Index
Additional Edition:
Print version Barnes, Ruth Textiles in Indian Ocean Societies Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group,c2004 ISBN 9780415297660
Language:
English
Keywords:
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