RT Book
T1 Abraham's luggage: a social life of things in the medieval Indian ocean world
T2 Asian connections
A1 Lambourn, Elizabeth 1966-
LA English
PP Cambridge
PB Cambridge University Press
YR 2019
ED First paperback edition
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1676458654
AB 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
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
CN HF3785
SN 9781316626276
SN 9781107173880
K1 Ben Yijû, Abraham : active 12th century
K1 Jewish merchants : India
K1 Cairo Genizah
K1 Jewish merchants : Middle East
K1 Commerce : History : Medieval, 500-1500
K1 Ben Yijû, Abraham
K1 Commerce
K1 Commerce ; Medieval
K1 Jewish merchants
K1 India
K1 Middle East
K1 History
K1 India : Commerce : History : To 1500
DO 10.1017/9781316795453