Textiles in Indian Ocean societies
By: edited by Ruth Barnes.
Contributors: Barnes, Ruth, 1947-
Series: RoutledgeCurzon Indian Ocean series; Indian Ocean series
Publisher: RoutledgeCurzon
Published: 2005
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 198
Subjects: Textile fabrics -- Social aspects -- Indian Ocean Region -- Congresses.; Textile fabrics -- Economic aspects -- Indian Ocean Region -- Congresses.; Textile design -- Indian Ocean Region -- Congresses.; Indian Ocean Region -- Commerce -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Papers presented at a workshop held at St. Antony's College, Oxford in March 1999, the third in a series on "The Indian Ocean: trans-regional creation of societies and cultures."

Includes bibliographical references (p. [163]-180) and index.
Table of contents: title: Rome and India : early Indian cotton textiles from Berenike, Red Sea coast of Egypt / John Peter Wild and Felicity Wild; title: Far-flung fabrics - Indian textiles in ancient maritime trade / Himanshu Prabha Ray; title: 'Portuguese' carpets from Khorasan, Persia / Steven Cohen; title: Textile as commodity, dress as text : Swahili kanga and women's statements / David Parkin; title: The kofia tradition of Zanzibar : the implicit and explicit discourses of men's head-dress in an Indian Ocean society / Zulfikar Hirji; title: Ze mañeva aze : looking for patterns in Malagasy cloth / Sarah Fee; title: Cosmopolitan tastes and indigenous designs - virtual cloth in a Javanese candi / Mary-Louise Totton; title: Textiles of Jambi (Sumatra) and the Indian Ocean trade / Fiona Kerlogue; title: Moving between cultures : textiles as a source of innovation in Kedang, eastern Indonesia / Ruth Barnes.