The Indian Ocean: Oceanic Connections and the Creation of New Societies - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Abdul Sheriff (Editor), Engseng Ho (Editor)Publish date:2014-09-01Pages:256
Language:EnglishPublisher:Hurst & Co.ISBN-13:9781849044264ISBN-10:1849044260UPC:9781849044264Book Category:Social Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:Anthropology, WorldBook Topic:Cultural & SocialSize:8.50 x 5.40 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.9502Product ID:SCWVDJ1JWG
The Indian Ocean: Oceanic Connections and the Creation of New Societies
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...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Hurst & Co.ISBN-13:9781849044264ISBN-10:1849044260UPC:9781849044264Book Category:Social Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:Anthropology, WorldBook Topic:Cultural & SocialSize:8.50 x 5.40 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.9502Product ID:SCWVDJ1JWG
Abdul Sheriff is Director of the Zanzibar Indian Ocean Research Institute and the author of Dhow Cultures of the Indian Ocean Cosmopolitanism, Commerce, and Islam, published by Hurst. Engseng Ho is Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Duke University and author of The Graves of Tarim: Genealogy and Mobility across the Indian Ocean, which tells of how Muslim sailors, scholars, merchants and...
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