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020			_a9781316626276
028			_a;Zafaa Books & Distributors _b:313/56F 49A, Anand Nagar Inderlok Delhi 110035 _c:ZBD0276 _d:25/06/2022
082			_a382.091 LAM
100			_aLambourn, Elizabeth
245			_aAbraham's Luggage _b: a social life of things in the medieval Indian ocean world _c/ Elizabeth Lambourn
260			_aNew York _b:Cambridge University Press, _c©2018
300			_axvi, 301p : _b illustrations, maps _c; 24 cm.
365			_b3186
490			_aAsian connections (Series)
505			_aA Mediterranean society in Malibarat -- A Mediterranean society of sea.
520			_aFrom 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
650			_aCommerce,
650			_aCommerce, communications and transportation
650			_aInternational commerce (Foreign trade)
650			_aCairo Genizah.
650			_aIndia -- Commerce -- History -- To 1500.
650			_aCommerce -- History -- Medieval, 500-1500.
650			_aCommerce -- Medieval.
650			_aJewish merchants.
650			_aMiddle East.
650			_aCairo Genizah.
700			_aLambourn, Elizabeth
942			_cBOOK
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