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A material culture : consumption and materiality on the coast of precolonial East Africa / Stephanie Wynne-Jones.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wynne-Jones, Stephanie, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Material culture--Africa, East.
- Material culture.
- Archaeology--Africa, East.
- Archaeology.
- Swahili-speaking peoples--Africa, East--Social life and customs.
- Swahili-speaking peoples.
- Swahili-speaking peoples--Africa, East--History.
- Civilization.
- History.
- Manners and customs.
- Africa, East--Civilization.
- Africa, East.
- Swahili-speaking peoples--Social life and customs.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiii, 232 pages, 8 pages of plates) : illustrations, maps
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2020.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- '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.
- Notes:
- This edition previously issued in print: 2016.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record
- Other Format:
- Print version
- ISBN:
- 9780191917042
- 0191917044
- OCLC:
- 1222774996
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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