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Record Nr.

UNINA9910798709003321

Autore

Wynne-Jones Stephanie

Titolo

A material culture : consumption and materiality on the coast of precolonial East Africa / / Stephanie Wynne-Jones

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , 2020

ISBN

0-19-191704-4

0-19-107716-X

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (257 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : color illustrations, photographs, tables

Collana

Oxford scholarship online

Disciplina

916.7

Soggetti

Material culture - Africa, East

Archaeology - Africa, East

Swahili-speaking peoples - Africa, East - Social life and customs

Swahili-speaking peoples - Africa, East - History

History

Africa, East Civilization

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

This edition previously issued in print: 2016.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Machine generated contents note: ; 1. A Material Culture: Introduction -- ; 2. Objects in the Swahili World -- ; 3. Kilwa Kisiwani: Establishing a Town -- ; 4. Vumba Kuu: Negotiating Similarity and Difference -- ; 5. Moving Inland from the Coast -- ; 6. Community and Identity in Material Culture -- ; 7. The Indian Ocean before the Arrival of Europeans -- ; 8. Swahili Material Worlds.

Sommario/riassunto

'A Material Culture' focuses on objects in Swahili society through the elaboration of an approach that sees people and things as caught up in webs of mutual interaction. It therefore provides both a new theoretical intervention in some of the key themes in material culture studies, including the agency of objects and the ways they were linked to social identities, through the development of the notion of a biography of practice.