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This study includes a wide range of contributions on the materiality and social practices of book copying, consuming, collecting, storing, venerating, discarding and preserving, both in historical and contemporary societies, stretching from Mauritania to Yemen, Kerala, and Malaysia. The volume consists of contributions made by academics, curators, and librarians both from the global North and the global South (India, Kenya, Syria, South Africa).
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Keywords
- anthropology
- Manuscripts and illumination
- Middle Eastern History
- Relating to Islamic / Muslim people and groups
- thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AK Design, Industrial and commercial arts, illustration::AKH Book design and Bookbinding::AKHM Manuscripts and illumination
- thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology
- thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHG Middle Eastern history
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DOI: 10.1163/9789004689329Editions