Pedro (Hrsg.) Machado

Textile Trades, Consumer Cultures, and the Material Worlds of the Indian Ocean

An Ocean of Cloth

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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… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Fee, Sarah (Hrsg.) / Campbell, Gwyn (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-3-319-86363-4
EAN: 9783319863634
Produktnummer: 31771661
Verlag: Springer Nature EN
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
Seitenangabe: 426 S.
Masse: H21.0 cm x B14.8 cm 587 g
Auflage: Nachdr.
Abbildungen: schwarz-weiss Illustrationen, farbige Illustrationen, Tabellen, farbig
Gewicht: 587
Sonstiges: Research

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.