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03305aam a2200409Ii 4500 001 55DB109EF05511E7964A246697128E48 003 SILO 005 20180103010226 008 151113s2016 enkabf b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 0198759312 020 $a 9780198759317 035 $a (OCoLC)929590992 040 $a ERASA $b eng $e rda $c ERASA $d YDXCP $d OCLCQ $d BTCTA $d BDX $d CDX $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d GUA $d INU $d UtOrBLW $d SILO 043 $a fe----- $0 http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/geographicAreas/fe 050 4 $a DT428 $b .W95 2016 082 04 $a 960 100 1 $a Wynne-Jones, Stephanie, $e author. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2008028687 245 12 $a A material culture : $b consumption and materiality on the coast of precolonial East Africa / $c Stephanie Wynne-Jones. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a Oxford : $b Oxford University Press, $c 2016. 300 $a xiii, 232 pages, 8 pages of plates : $b illustrations (some color), maps ; $c 23 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-230) and index. 520 8 $a "A Material Culture focuses on objects in Swahili society through the elaboration of an approach that sees both 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. These theoretical discussions are explored through the archaeology of the Swahili, on the Indian Ocean coast of eastern Africa. This book suggests that the Swahili are a highly-significant case study for exploration of the relationship between objects and people in the past, as the society was constituted and defined through a particular material setting. Further, it is suggested that this relationship was subtly different than in other areas, and particularly from western models that dominate prevailing analysis. The case is made for an alternative form of materiality, perhaps common to the wider Indian Ocean world, with an emphasis on redistribution and circulation rather than on the accumulation of wealth. The reader will therefore gain familiarity with a little-known and fascinating culture, as well as appreciating the ways that non-western examples can add to our theoretical models."-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Material culture $z Africa, East. 651 0 $a Africa, East $x Civilization. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001590 650 0 $a Archaeology $z Africa, East. 650 0 $a Swahili-speaking peoples $z Africa, East $x Social life and customs. 650 0 $a Swahili-speaking peoples $z Africa, East $x History. 650 7 $a Archaeology. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00812938 650 7 $a Material culture. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01011739 650 7 $a Swahili-speaking peoples. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01139887 650 7 $a Swahili-speaking peoples $x Social life and customs. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01139897 651 7 $a Africa, East. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01239511 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1411628 $0 http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1411628 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191213022409.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=55DB109EF05511E7964A246697128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search