Description |
xiv, 198 p. : ill., maps. |
Series |
RoutledgeCurzon Indian Ocean series |
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Indian Ocean series.
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Note |
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." |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [163]-180) and index. |
Contents |
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 maneva 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. |
Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. |
Subject |
Textile fabrics -- Social aspects -- Indian Ocean Region -- Congresses.
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Textile fabrics -- Economic aspects -- Indian Ocean Region -- Congresses.
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Textile design -- Indian Ocean Region -- Congresses.
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Indian Ocean Region -- Commerce -- Congresses.
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Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Added Author |
Barnes, Ruth, 1947-
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ProQuest (Firm)
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ISBN |
0415297664 (cloth) |
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