Abstract
Introduction Ruth Barnes 1. Rome and India: early Indian cotton textiles from Berenike, Red Sea coast of Egypt John Peter Wild 2. Far-flung fabrics - Indian textiles in ancient maritime trade Himanshu Prabha Ray 3. 'Portuguese' carpets from Khorasan, Persia Steven Cohen 4. Textile as commodity, dress as text: Swahili kanga and women's statements David Parkin 5. The kofia tradition of Zanzibar: the implicit and explicit discourse of men's head-dress in an Indian Ocean society Zulfikar Hirji 6. Ze maneva aze: Looking for patterns in Malagasy cloth Sarah Fee 7. Cosmopolitan tastes and indigenous designs - virtual cloth in a Javanese 'candi' Mary-Louise Totton 8. Textiles of Jambi (Sumatra) and the Indian Ocean trade Fiona Kerlogue 9. Inventing the cloth of the ancestor: new textiles in Kedang, eastern Indonesia Ruth Barnes
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