The Political Economy of Craft Production: Crafting Empire in South India, c.1350–1650 - Softcover

Sinopoli, Carla M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521174163 ISBN 13: 9780521174169

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2011

Synopsis

Carla Sinopoli examines a diverse range of crafts to explore the role and significance of craft production in the political economy of the fourteenth through seventeenth-century South Indian Vijayanagara empire. Ranging from poetry to pottery, Sinopoli utilizes evidence from twenty years of fieldwork at the Vijayanagara capital, one of the largest and wealthiest cities in the world in its time. This book is a broad-ranging study of craft production in South Asia, as well as other early state empires.

About this title

Book Description:

This work combines archaeological and historical evidence to explore the role and significance of craft production in the political economy of the fourteenth through seventeenth-century South Indian Vijayanagara empire. Carla Sinopoli examines a diverse range of crafts from poetry to pottery, employing evidence from the her 20 years of fieldwork at the Vijayanagara capital, one of the largest and wealthiest cities in the world in its time. It is the most broad-ranging study of craft production in South Asia, or in any other early state empire.

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0521174163
• ISBN 13: 9780521174169
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 370