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