Abraham’s Luggage: A Social Life of Things in the Medieval Indian Ocean World
- Submitting institution
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De Montfort University
- Unit of assessment
- 28 - History
- Output identifier
- 28010
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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10.1017/9781316795453
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- ISBN
- 9781316795453
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2018
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This monograph is a study of mobility and identity in the medieval Indian Ocean world explored through the prism of a single list of luggage preserved in the Cairo Genizah. The monograph is inter-disciplinary and required extensive research across disciplines and historical sub-fields entirely new to the author. Among them: Jewish history; the history of Classical and Islamic medicine; Jewish mercantile law; Jewish, Muslim and Indic foodways and food cultures; ship technology; the anthropology of food and Genizah studies. The resulting monograph is 120,000 words long and took seven years to research and write.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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