Textile Trades, Consumer Cultures, and the Material Worlds of the Indian Ocean
An Ocean of Cloth
This collection examines cloth as a material and consumer object from early periods to the twenty-first century, across multiple oceanic sites-from Zanzibar, Muscat and Kampala to Ajanta, Srivijaya and Osaka. It moves beyond usual focuses on a single fibre (such as cotton) or place (such as India) to provide a fresh, expansive perspective of the ocean as an interaction-based arena, with an internal dynamism and historical coherence forged by material exchange and human relationships. Contributors map shifting social, cultural and commercial circuits to chart the many histories of cloth across the region. They also trace these histories up to…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Fee, Sarah (Hrsg.) / Campbell, Gwyn (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-3-319-58265-8
- EAN: 9783319582658
- Produktnummer: 25891580
- Verlag: Springer-Verlag GmbH
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Seitenangabe: 426 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 10'535 KB
- Auflage: 1st ed. 2018
- Abbildungen: 14 schwarz-weiße und 39 farbige Abbildungen, 22 farbige Tabellen, Bibliographie
Über den Autor
Pedro Machado is Associate Professor of History at Indiana University, Bloomington, USA.Sarah Fee is a Curator of Eastern Hemisphere Textiles and Fashion at the Royal Ontario Museum, Canada.Gwyn Campbell is Professor of History and Director of the Indian Ocean World Centre at McGill University, Canada.
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