Connectivity in Motion Island Hubs in the Indian Ocean World /

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,...

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Médium: Elektronický zdroj E-kniha
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2018.
Vydání:1st ed. 2018.
Edice:Palgrave Series in Indian Ocean World Studies
Témata:
World history.
Civilization-History.
Social history.
Area studies.
Ethnography.
Human geography.
ISBN:9783319597256
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Obsah:
  • I. Themes
  • 1. "Connectivity in Motion": Island Hubs in the Indian Ocean World
  • 2. Islands Connect: People, Things and Ideas among the Small Islands of the Western Indian Ocean
  • 3. Small Island Hubs and Connectivity in the Indian Ocean World: Some Concepts and Hypotheses from Historical Anthropology
  • 4. Displaced Passengers: States, Movements and Disappearances in the Indian Ocean
  • II. Case Studies
  • 5. The Role of Kilwa in the Trade of the Western Indian Ocean
  • 6. Zanzibar, the Indian Ocean and Nineteenth-Century Global Interface
  • 7. Ali Mfaume: A Comorian Hub in the Western Indian Ocean
  • 8. Multifaceted Identities, Multiple Dwellings: Connectivity and Flexible Household Configurations in Zanzibar Town
  • 9. A Hub of "Local Cosmopolitans": Migration and Settlement in Early Eighteenth- to Nineteenth-Century Port Louis
  • 10. The Making of a Hub Society: Mauritius' Path from Port of Call to Cyber Island
  • 11. Dis/Entangled Hubs: Connectivity and Disconnections in the Chagos Archipelago
  • 12. Big Men Politics and Insularity in the Maldivian World of Islands
  • 13. Considering the Island Capital Male' as a Hub for Health-Related Mobilities
  • 14. From Salsette to Socotra: Islands across the Seas and Implications for Heritage
  • 15. Serendipitous Connections: The Chinese Engagements with Sri Lanka
  • 16. Changing Connectivity in a World of Small Islands: The Role of Makassar (Sulawesi) as a Hub Under Dutch Hegemony
  • 17. Ambon, a Spicy Hub: Connectivity at the Fringe of the Indian Ocean.

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