Title & Author:

The Indian Ocean : oceanic connections and the creation of new societies / Abdul Sheriff, Engseng Ho (editors).

Publication:

London : Hurst & Company, 2014.

Description:

xviii, 307 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm

Notes:
Papers originally presented at a conference organized by the Zanzibar Indian Ocean Research Institute (ZIORI), August 2008.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Globalisation with a difference: an overview / Abdul Sheriff -- Part 1: Oceanic movements and connections. Maritime trade, political relations and residential diplomacy in the world of the Indian Ocean / Ravi Arvind Palat ; Mapping the Indian Ocean world of Gulf merchants c. 1870-1960 / Fahad Ahmad Bishara ; Between Pori, Pwani and Kisiwani: overlapping labour cultures in the caravans, ports and dhows of the Western Indian Ocean / Stephen J. Rockel ; The question of slavery in Indian Ocean world history / Gwyn Campbell ; Indentured labour in the Indian Ocean and the creation of new societies / Vijayalakshmi Teelock -- Part 2: Migrations and the formation of new societies. The state of Swahili civilisation: Swahili language and society, Indian Ocean antecedents and anthropological research / Mohamed Bakari ; Cosmopolitanism or exclusion? Negotiating identity in the expressive culture of contemporary Zanzibar / Paola Ivanov ; Identity and citizenship among the Comorians of Zanzibar, 1886-1963 / Iain Walker ; Philanthropy and trust in the straits of Melaka: Diversities in civil and global approaches to nationhoods / Wazir Jahan Karim.

Summary:

The Indian Ocean was the first venue of global trade, connecting the Mediterranean and South China Sea. Inspired by the insights of Fernand Braudel, and by Michael Mollat, who saw it as 'a zone of encounters and contacts ... a privileged crossroads of culture, ' this volume explores two inter-related themes. The first, on oceanic linkages, presents the diversity of the peoples who have traversed it and their relationships by tracing their tangible movements and connections. The second, on the creation of new societies, revisits better-known socio-historical phenomena--such as slavery, indentured labor, the Swahili language and Muslim charity--which tie the genesis of these social formations to the seascape of an interconnected, transcultural ocean. The chapters offer a broad and diverse view of the mobile, transregional communities that comprise Indian Ocean society, while in-depth case studies allow students and specialists to see how individual research projects may contribute to developing a view of the Indian Ocean as a transcultural arena, one in which individual societies were and are shaped by their interactions with others from across the waters. This volume will be suitable for courses in the burgeoning fields of world history, transcultural anthropology and the Indian Ocean.

ISBN:

9781849044264 (pbk.)
1849044260 (pbk.)
9781849044271 (hbk.)
1849044279 (hbk.)

Subject:

Ocean travel.
Cultural relations.
Ethnology Indian Ocean Region.
Relations culturelles.
Ethnologie Indien, Région de l'océan.
Commerce
Ethnology
Travel
Internationale Politik
Migration
Nationalbewusstsein
Seehandel
Indian Ocean Region History.
Indian Ocean Region Description and travel.
Indian Ocean Region Commerce History.
Indien, Région de l'océan Histoire.
Indien, Région de l'océan Descriptions et voyages.
Indien, Région de l'océan Commerce Histoire.
Indian Ocean Region
Indischer Ozean Region

Form/genre:

Conference papers (document genres)
History

Added entries:

Sheriff, Abdul, editor.
Ho, Engseng, 1961- editor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 315907
Call No.: 315907
Copy: 1
Status: Available