A Material Culture A Material Culture

A Material Culture

Consumption and Materiality on the Coast of Precolonial East Africa

Stephanie Wynne-Jones
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Publisher Description

This book explores the importance of objects in Swahili society. The archaeology of the east coast of Africa has provided a wealth of information on the complex ways that objects were bound up with social identities, power negotiations, and concepts of wealth, and how these have changed over time.

GENRE
Non-Fiction
RELEASED
2016
May 12
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
264
Pages
PUBLISHER
OUP Oxford
SELLER
The Chancellor, Masters and Scholars of the University of Oxford trading as Oxford University Press
SIZE
13.3
MB

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