Carla M. Sinopoli

The Political Economy of Craft Production

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A 2003 study of the significance of craft production in the South Indian Vijayanagara empire.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 370
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. November 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 819g
• ISBN-13: 9780521826136
• ISBN-10: 0521826136
• Artikelnr.: 23183424

Autorenporträt

Carla M. Sinopoli is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology of the University of Michigan and Associate curator of Asian Archaeology in the Museum of Anthropology at the University of Michigan. She is the author of Pots and Palaces: The Earthenware Ceramics of the Noblemen's Quarter of Vijayanagara (1993), Approaches to Archaeological Ceramics (1991) and co-editor of Empires: Comparative Perspectives from Archaeology and History.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Specialized craft production: archaeological approaches
3. The South Asian state
4. Vijayanagara: the historical setting
5. Vijayanagara: sources of evidence
6. Craft products and craft producers
7. Artisans and institutions: artisans and each other
8. Crafting empire: conclusion.