02698oam 2200565 450 991079870900332120240112211306.00-19-191704-40-19-107716-X(CKB)3710000000897671(MiAaPQ)EBC4713683(StDuBDS)EDZ0002340966(PPN)273408488(EXLCZ)99371000000089767120200915e20202016 fy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierA material culture consumption and materiality on the coast of precolonial East Africa /Stephanie Wynne-JonesFirst edition.Oxford :Oxford University Press,2020.1 online resource (257 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) color illustrations, photographs, tablesOxford scholarship onlineThis edition previously issued in print: 2016.0-19-107717-8 0-19-875931-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.'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.Oxford scholarship online.Material cultureAfrica, EastArchaeologyAfrica, EastSwahili-speaking peoplesAfrica, EastSocial life and customsSwahili-speaking peoplesAfrica, EastHistoryAfrica, EastCivilizationHistory.fastMaterial cultureArchaeologySwahili-speaking peoplesSocial life and customs.Swahili-speaking peoplesHistory.916.7Wynne-Jones Stephanie1571044StDuBDSStDuBDSBOOK9910798709003321A material culture3845127UNINA