ISBN:
9728325487
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9789728325480
Language:
English
Pages:
421 pages
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illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles, maps, portraits
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30 cm
Uniform Title:
Culturas do Indico
Keywords:
Gama, Vasco da Anniversaries, etc
;
Gama, Vasco da Anniversaries
;
Gama, Vasco da
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Anniversaries
;
Diplomatic relations
;
Discoveries in geography
;
Kultur
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Ausstellung
;
Lissabon (1998)
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Kultur
;
Exhibition catalogs
;
Indian Ocean Exhibitions Discovery and exploration
;
Africa, East Exhibitions Foreign relations
;
Portugal Exhibitions Foreign relations
;
Africa, East
;
Indian Ocean
;
Portugal
;
Indischer Ozean (Region)
;
Indischer Ozean ; Region
;
Ausstellungskatalog
Abstract:
Representations of the Indian Ocean in 16th-century portuguese cartography / Alexandra Curvelo Campos -- Ethiopia in the geographical representations of Mediaeval and Renaissance Europe / Manuel João Ramos -- The reality and symbolism of a myth: the tradition of Vasco da Gama's Arab pilot / Michael Barry -- The achievement of Vasco da Gama / Carmen Radulet -- "Brotherhood of the Sea" / Abdul Sheriff -- The Mamluks: between the Mediterranean and the Red Sea / James W. Allan -- The Swahili interface, urban trajectories, and state formation in East Central Africa (c.700-1700) / João Carlos de Senna-Martinez -- Ethiopia: the book and the cross / Richard Pankhurst -- Sacred Word -- Sacred Image. The art of the book in India / John Guy -- "Mother goddesses with child" in ancient and medieval Indian art / Amina Okada.
Abstract:
Madagascar in its Indian Ocean context / John Mack -- Indian trade textiles: sources and transmission of designs / Ruth Barnes -- Jewelled emblems of royalty at the Mughal Court / Susan Stronge -- Individual Body, Social Body: clothing and styles of dress in Rajasthan / Françoise Cousin -- Codification and representation of the body in East Africa / Jean-Claude Penrad -- Mozambique: the body and the bodies / Ana Cristina Roque -- The perception of cultural objects / John Mack -- The ethnographic object as art: invention or reality? / Pilar Romero de Tejeda -- The Portuguese encounter with the Swahili towns of the East African coast / Mark Horton -- Patronage and architecture in Rasulid and Tahirid Yemen / Noha Sadek -- The built environment of Yemen / Fernando Varanda.
Note:
Prepared in conjunction with an exhibition at Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, Lisbon, 1998, in commemoration of the 500th anniversary of the voyage of Vasco da Gama
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Translation of: Culturas do Indico
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 409-419)
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