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Early African Pasts: Sources, Interpretations, Meanings Reference library
David Schoenbrun
The Oxford Encyclopedia of African Historiography: Methods and Sources
...The use of bowls to feast near a mosque and the desire for beads of glass from India or the Persian Gulf, rather than beads of local shell, raises questions about the entanglement of affective and intellectual life with public eating and the importance of worldliness as a symbol of standing and authority. 62 Imports, properly displayed and used with locally produced things like ironwork, shell beads, pots, ivory, copper jewelry and boxes, and possibly gold bundled the enormous range of a high-status feast thrower’s network with the sensorium of the tasty...
