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In an Antique Land
Moving between past and present, anthropologist Amitav Ghosh presents a lyrical portrait of life in Egypt, as well as broad histories of that country, Tunisia, and India’s Malabar Coast. Ghosh weaves strands of his own life in rural Egypt into…
Tags: anthropology, commerce, Egypt, Geniza documents, India, interfaith, Mangalore, medieval, Palestine, slavery, sufism, travel narrative