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First edition. |
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1 online resource : illustrations |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Cover ; A Material Culture: Consumption and Materiality on the Coast of Precolonial East Africa; Copyright; Preface; Contents; List of Plates; List of Figures; List of Tables; Plates; 1. A Material Culture: Introduction; DYNAMIC MATERIALS; SWAHILI MATERIALITIES; CHRONOLOGY; BOOK STRUCTURE; 2. Objects in the Swahili World; SWAHILI STONE TOWNS; Kilwa Kisiwani; Shanga; Unguja Ukuu, Manda, and Tumbe; MATERIAL FRAMEWORKS; Early Tana Tradition and Swahili Origins; Practice and the Swahili Stone House; Cosmopolitanism and Wealth; TYPES OF OBJECT; Local Ceramics; Metalworking; Shell Beads. |
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Spindle WhorlsCurrency and Objects of Trade; Imported Goods; Glass Beads; A Material Culture?; 3. Kilwa Kisiwani: Establishing a Town; DEVELOPING GRANDEUR; Early Kilwa; Change and Growth; THE 'GOLDEN AGE'; Display and Materiality; ESTABLISHING A TOWN; Sites in the Kilwa Archipelago; The Mainland and Kilwa Region; Establishing a Town; 4. Vumba Kuu: Negotiating Similarityand Difference; HISTORIES OF CONSUMPTION; ARCHAEOLOGY AND THE FEAST; DISTINCTION AND DIFFERENTIATION; DIFFERENTIATION IN SWAHILI TOWNS; PRACTICES OF BELONGING AT VUMBA KUU; 5. Moving Inland from the Coast; ENTANGLED COMMUNITIES. |
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MODELLING INTERIOR NETWORKS: CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORKSThe Effect of Historical Models; Prestige Goods and External Trade; SHARED PRODUCTION AND CONSUMPTION NETWORKS; HUBS AND MERCHANTS; Chibuene and Southern Africa; Kwa Mgogo and the Pangani Valley; RESISTANCE AND LOCAL TASTE; IMPORTS AND NETWORKS; Imported Ceramics; Beads; DISCONNECTIONS; 6. Community and Identity in Material Culture; CERAMICS, FOOD, AND DRINK; Early Tana Tradition Ceramics; Later Tana Tradition Ceramics; THE CREATION OF COMMONALITY ON CONTEMPORARY MAFIA; Creating a Mafia Style; Potter Identities. |
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Ceramics and Identity: The Multi-Ethnic CommunitySPACES FOR LIVING; The Mosque; Houses; Concepts and Spatial Practices; VALUE AND EXCHANGE; 7. The Indian Ocean before the Arrivalof Europeans; ZONES OF INTERACTION AND MODES OF CONTACT; ARCHAEOLOGIES OF THE INDIAN OCEAN ; The Persian Gulf in the Seventh-Tenth Centuries; Sind; AD 1000 and the 'Sharma Horizon'; Cosmopolitanism and Variety: The Eleventh Century Onwards; Hospitality and Kinship; OBJECTS IN MOTION; 8. Swahili Material Worlds; CONTEMPORARY AND HISTORICAL MATERIAL PRACTICES; Display and Largesse; Identity and Community. |
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THE SWAHILI AS A MATERIAL CULTUREOBJECTS AND THEIR AGENCY; References; Index. |
| Summary |
This book explores the importance of objects in Swahili society. The archaeology of the east coast of Africa has provided a wealth of information on the complex ways that objects were bound up with social identities, power negotiations, and concepts of wealth, and how these have changed over time. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Archaeology -- Africa, East.
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Archaeology. |
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Africa, East. |
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Material culture -- Africa, East.
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Material culture. |
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Swahili-speaking peoples -- Africa, East -- Social life and customs.
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Swahili-speaking peoples. |
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Manners and customs. |
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Swahili-speaking peoples -- Africa, East -- History.
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History. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| ISBN |
9780191077166 (electronic book) |
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019107716X (electronic book) |
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9780198759317 |
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0198759312 |
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