Abraham's luggage: a social life of things in the medieval Indian ocean world

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 Med...

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Main Author: Lambourn, Elizabeth 1966- (Author)
Format: Electronic/Print Book
Language:English
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Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2019
In:Year: 2019
Edition:First paperback edition
Series/Journal:Asian connections
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Ben Yijû, Abraham ca. 12. Jahrhundert / Indian Ocean (Region) / Long-range trade
IxTheo Classification:AG Religious life; material religion
BG World religions
BH Judaism
Further subjects:B Jewish merchants
B Jewish merchants (India)
B Commerce
B History
B India
B Middle East
B Cairo Genizah
B Jewish merchants (Middle East)
B India Commerce History To 1500
B Commerce History Medieval, 500-1500
B Ben Yijû, Abraham (active 12th century)
B Commerce ; Medieval
B Ben Yijû, Abraham
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Summary: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
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN:131662627X
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1017/9781316795453