Abraham's luggage: a social life of things in the medieval Indian Ocean world
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 Med...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge New York Melbourne New Delhi
Cambridge University Press
2018
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| In: | Year: 2018 |
| Series/Journal: | Asian connections
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Ben Yijû, Abraham ca. 12. Jahrhundert
/ Indian Ocean (Region)
/ Long-range trade
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Jewish merchants (Middle East)
B Jewish merchants B Commerce Medieval B India Commerce History To 1500 B India Commerce History To 1500 India Middle East B Commerce History Medieval, 500-1500 B Ben Yijû, Abraham (active 12th century) B Jewish merchants Middle East B Commerce B Ben Yijû, Abraham active 12th century Ben Yijû, Abraham active 12th century To 1500 B Commerce History Medieval, 500-1500 |
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| Summary: | 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 |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke |
| ISBN: | 1107173884 |