Woven Webs: Trading Textiles around the Indian Ocean

Throughout its long history, the changing networks of the Indian Ocean textile trade have served as circuits of material communication, transmitting cultural values embodied in cloth, defining and redefining identities and relationships. This paper explores some of the cultural ramifications of this...

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Main Author: Lola Sharon Davidson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: UTS ePRESS 2012-06-01
Series:PORTAL: Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies
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Online Access:http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/journals/index.php/portal/article/view/2562