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

• Autore: Wynne-Jones Stephanie
• Pubblicazione: Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , 2020
• Edizione: First edition.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (257 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : color illustrations, photographs, tables
• Disciplina: 916.7
• Soggetto topico: Material culture - Africa, East; Archaeology - Africa, East; Swahili-speaking peoples - Africa, East - Social life and customs; Swahili-speaking peoples - Africa, East - History
• Soggetto geografico: Africa, East Civilization
• Soggetto genere / forma: History
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: A material culture
• ISBN: 0-19-191704-4; 0-19-107716-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910798709003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Oxford scholarship online.