Textiles in Indian Ocean societies / edited by Ruth Barnes.
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| Superior document: | RoutledgeCurzon Indian Ocean series |
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| Year of Publication: | 2005 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Indian Ocean series.
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| Physical Description: | xiv, 198 p. :; ill., maps. |
| Notes: | 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." |
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Table of 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.