Connectivity in Motion : Island Hubs in the Indian Ocean World

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Label

Connectivity in Motion : Island Hubs in the Indian Ocean World

Title remainder

Island Hubs in the Indian Ocean World

Statement of responsibility

edited by Burkhard Schnepel, Edward A. Alpers

Contributor

• Alpers, Edward A
• Schnepel, Burkhard

Editor

• Alpers, Edward A
• Schnepel, Burkhard

Subject

• Area studies
• Civilization -- History
• Ethnography
• History
• Human geography
• Social history
• World history

Language

eng

Summary

This original collection brings islands to the fore in a growing body of scholarship on the Indian Ocean, examining them as hubs or points of convergence and divergence in a world of maritime movements and exchanges. Straddling history and anthropology and grounded in the framework of connectivity, the book tackles central themes such as smallness, translocality, and "the island factor." It moves to the farthest reaches of the region, with a rich variety of case studies on the Swahili-Comorian world, the Maldives, Indonesia, and more. With remarkable breadth and cohesion, these essays capture the circulations of people, goods, rituals, sociocultural practices, and ideas that constitute the Indian Ocean world. Together, they take up "islandness" as an explicit empirical and methodological issue as few have done before.--

Member of

• Palgrave Series in Indian Ocean World Studies

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Provided by publisher

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Series statement

• Springer eBooks.
• Palgrave Series in Indian Ocean World Studies