Book contents
- Abraham’s Luggage
- Asian Connections
- Abraham’s Luggage
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Notes on Style and Transliteration
- Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction: A List of Luggage from the Indian Ocean World
- 2 From Ifriqiya to Malibarat: Introducing Abraham Ben Yiju
- Part I A Mediterranean Society in Malibarat
- Part II A Mediterranean Society at Sea
- 6 The “Simple” Bare Necessities: On Water and Rice
- 7 “Things for the Cabin”: Inhabiting the Ocean
- 8 The Balanced Body: On Vinegar and Other Sour Foods
- 9 From Malibarat to Misr and Beyond – Afterlives
- Appendix Abraham’s List of Luggage (India Book III, 24): Transcription, Transliteration and Translation
- Select Bibliography
- Index
7 - “Things for the Cabin”: Inhabiting the Ocean
from Part II - A Mediterranean Society at Sea
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 September 2018
- Abraham’s Luggage
- Asian Connections
- Abraham’s Luggage
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Notes on Style and Transliteration
- Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction: A List of Luggage from the Indian Ocean World
- 2 From Ifriqiya to Malibarat: Introducing Abraham Ben Yiju
- Part I A Mediterranean Society in Malibarat
- Part II A Mediterranean Society at Sea
- 6 The “Simple” Bare Necessities: On Water and Rice
- 7 “Things for the Cabin”: Inhabiting the Ocean
- 8 The Balanced Body: On Vinegar and Other Sour Foods
- 9 From Malibarat to Misr and Beyond – Afterlives
- Appendix Abraham’s List of Luggage (India Book III, 24): Transcription, Transliteration and Translation
- Select Bibliography
- Index
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- Abraham's LuggageA Social Life of Things in the Medieval Indian Ocean World, pp. 189 - 218Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2018