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Objects of translation : material culture and medieval "Hindu-Muslim" encounter / Finbarr B. Flood.
Publication details: Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2009.Description: xv, 366 p. : ill. ; 26 cmISBN:- 9780691125947 (cloth) :
- 0691125945 :
- GN635.S57 F56 2009
Contents:
Roots or Routes? -- Networks, Translation, and Transculturation -- Things and Texts -- 1. The Mercantile Cosmopolis -- Polyglot Frontiers and Permeable Boundaries -- Gifts, Idolatry, and the Political Economy -- Heteropraxy, Taxonomy, and Traveling Orthography -- 2. Cultural Cross-dressing -- Prestigious Imitation -- Fractal Kingship and Royal Castoffi -- The Rajas Finger and the Sultans Belt -- Accommodating the Infidel -- Sunni Internationalism and the Ghurid Interlude -- From King of the Mountains to the Second Alexander -- Homology, Ambiguity, and the Rule of Sri Hammira -- 4. Looking at Loot -- Signs of Sovereignty -- Looting and Difference -- Trophies and Transculturation.
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American University in Dubai | American University in Dubai | Main Collection | GN 635 .S57 F56 2009 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 604123 |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-352) and index.
Roots or Routes? -- Networks, Translation, and Transculturation -- Things and Texts -- 1. The Mercantile Cosmopolis -- Polyglot Frontiers and Permeable Boundaries -- Gifts, Idolatry, and the Political Economy -- Heteropraxy, Taxonomy, and Traveling Orthography -- 2. Cultural Cross-dressing -- Prestigious Imitation -- Fractal Kingship and Royal Castoffi -- The Rajas Finger and the Sultans Belt -- Accommodating the Infidel -- Sunni Internationalism and the Ghurid Interlude -- From King of the Mountains to the Second Alexander -- Homology, Ambiguity, and the Rule of Sri Hammira -- 4. Looking at Loot -- Signs of Sovereignty -- Looting and Difference -- Trophies and Transculturation.
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