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Availability:In StockContributor:Elizabeth A. LambournSeries:Asian ConnectionsPublish date:2019-06-13Pages:317
Language:EnglishPublisher:Cambridge University PressISBN-13:9781316626276ISBN-10:131662627XUPC:9781316626276Book Category:History, Business & EconomicsBook Subcategory:Asia, InternationalBook Topic:SouthSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.67 inchesWeight:0.9414Product ID:SCNT42WKP6
From a single merchant's list of baggage begins a history that explores the dynamic world of medieval Indian Ocean exchanges. This fresh and innovative perspective on Jewish merchant activity shows how this list was a component of broader trade connections that developed between the Islamic Mediterranean and South Asia in the Middle Ages. Drawing on a close reading of this unique twelfth-century document, found in the Cairo Genizah and written in India by North African merchant Abraham Ben Yiju, Lambourn focuses on the domestic material culture and foods that structured the daily life of such India traders, on land and at sea. This is an exploration of the motivations and difficulties of maintaining homes away from home, and the compromises that inevitably ensued. Abraham's Luggage demonstrates the potential for writing challenging new histories in the accidental survival of apparently ordinary ephemera.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Cambridge University PressISBN-13:9781316626276ISBN-10:131662627XUPC:9781316626276Book Category:History, Business & EconomicsBook Subcategory:Asia, InternationalBook Topic:SouthSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.67 inchesWeight:0.9414Product ID:SCNT42WKP6
Lambourn, Elizabeth A.: - Elizabeth A. Lambourn is a historian of South Asia and the Indian Ocean world, specializing in cultural exchanges with the Middle East before 1500. She is Reader (Associate Professor) in South Asian and Indian Ocean Studies at De Montfort University, Leicester.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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