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Abraham's Luggage - A Social Life of Things in the Medieval Indian Ocean World (Hardcover)
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Abraham's Luggage - A Social Life of Things in the Medieval Indian Ocean World (Hardcover)
Series: Asian Connections
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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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