: a social life of things in the medieval Indian ocean world Lambourn, Elizabeth creator Lambourn, Elizabeth text New York :Cambridge University Press ©2018 monographic eng

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xvi, 301p : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. 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 A Mediterranean society in Malibarat -- A Mediterranean society of sea. / Elizabeth Lambourn Commerce Commerce, communications and transportation International commerce (Foreign trade) Cairo Genizah India -- Commerce -- History -- To 1500 Commerce -- History -- Medieval, 500-1500 Commerce -- Medieval Jewish merchants Middle East Cairo Genizah 382.091 LAM 9781316626276 ;Zafaa Books & Distributors :313/56F 49A, Anand Nagar Inderlok Delhi 110035 220629 20220629113620.0