Abraham's Luggage (Record no. 59354)
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| 000 -LEADER | |
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| fixed length control field | 01589 a2200205 4500 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION | |
| fixed length control field | 230531b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 9781316626276 (PB) |
| 041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE | |
| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | eng |
| 080 ## - UNIVERSAL DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Universal Decimal Classification number | 304 |
| Item number | LAM |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Personal name | Lambourn, Elizabeth |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Abraham's Luggage |
| Sub Title | a social life of things in the medieval Indian ocean world |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Name of publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year of publication | 2018 |
| Place of publication | Cambridge |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | xvi, 301p |
| 490 ## - SERIES STATEMENT | |
| Series statement | Asian connections (Series) |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | A Mediterranean society in Malibarat<br/>A Mediterranean society of sea |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | 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 |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Jewish merchants India |
| -- | Commerce History Medieval, 500-1500 |
| 690 ## - LOCAL SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM (OCLC, RLIN) | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | General |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | BOOKS |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Damaged status | Not for loan | Current library | Shelving location | Full call number | Accession Number | Koha item type |
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| IMSc Library | First Floor Rack No:02 Shelf No:04 | 304 LAM | 77320 | BOOKS |