Textiles in Indian ocean societies
Textiles in Indian ocean societies
- London Routledge 2005
- xiv,198p. ill., maps ; 24 cm.
- RoutledgeCurzon Indian Ocean series .
- Indian Ocean series. .
Papers presented at a workshop held at St. Antony's College, Oxford in March 1999, the third in a series on "The Indian Ocean: trans-regional creation of societies and cultures."
Includes bibliographical references (p. [163]-180) and index.
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.
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Textile fabrics--Social aspects--Indian Ocean Region--Congresses.
Textile fabrics--Economic aspects--Indian Ocean Region--Congresses.
Textile design--Indian Ocean Region--Congresses.
Indian Ocean Region--Commerce--Congresses.
NK8889.83.A1 / T48 2005
381.4567702864 / TE-
Papers presented at a workshop held at St. Antony's College, Oxford in March 1999, the third in a series on "The Indian Ocean: trans-regional creation of societies and cultures."
Includes bibliographical references (p. [163]-180) and index.
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.
9780415652278
2004048224
GBA3Z5445 bnb
010980201 Uk
Textile fabrics--Social aspects--Indian Ocean Region--Congresses.
Textile fabrics--Economic aspects--Indian Ocean Region--Congresses.
Textile design--Indian Ocean Region--Congresses.
Indian Ocean Region--Commerce--Congresses.
NK8889.83.A1 / T48 2005
381.4567702864 / TE-