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020			_a9781316626276 (PB)
041			_aeng
080			_a304 _bLAM
100			_aLambourn, Elizabeth
245			_aAbraham's Luggage _ba social life of things in the medieval Indian ocean world
260			_bCambridge University Press _c2018 _aCambridge
300			_axvi, 301p
490			_aAsian connections (Series)
505			_aA Mediterranean society in Malibarat A Mediterranean society of sea
520			_aFrom 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			_aJewish merchants India _aCommerce History Medieval, 500-1500
690			_aGeneral
942			_cBK _02
999			_c59354 _d59354