Abraham's Luggage

dc.cclicenceN/Aen
dc.contributor.authorLambourn, E.en
dc.date.acceptance2018-10-26en
dc.date.accessioned2018-10-02T08:17:57Z
dc.date.available2018-10-02T08:17:57Z
dc.date.issued2018-09-28
dc.description.abstractFrom 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.en
dc.explorer.multimediaNoen
dc.funderThe Leverhulme Trusten
dc.identifier.citationLambourn, E. (2018) Abraham's Luggage. A Social Life of Things in the Medieval Indian Ocean World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1017/9781316795453
dc.identifier.isbn9781107173880
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2086/16661
dc.language.isoenen
dc.peerreviewedYesen
dc.projectidF00793Een
dc.publisherCambridge University Pressen
dc.relation.ispartofseriesAsian Connections;
dc.researchgroupHistory Research Groupen
dc.researchinstituteInstitute of Historyen
dc.researchinstituteInstitute of Art and Designen
dc.subjectIndian Oceanen
dc.subjectmaterial cultureen
dc.subjectluggageen
dc.subjectbaggageen
dc.subjectmobilityen
dc.subjectSouth Asiaen
dc.subjectMiddle Easten
dc.subjectCairo Genizahen
dc.subjectJudaismen
dc.subjectmercantileen
dc.titleAbraham's Luggageen
dc.typeBooken

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