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edited by Ruth Barnes[electronic resource]

Routledge Curzon

2005

1 online resource (xiv, 198 p.) ill

Indian Ocean series

Includes bibliographical references (p. [163]-180) and index. , 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 -- ʹPortugueseʹ carpets from Khorasan, Persia / Steven Cohen -- Textile as commodity, dress as text : Swahili kanga and womenʹs statements / David Parkin -- The kofia tradition of Zanzibar : the implicit and explicit discourses of menʹs head-dress in an Indian Ocean society / Zulfikar Hirji -- Ze ma�neva 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

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