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, 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, sociocul…
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Weitere Autoren: Alpers, Edward A. (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-3-319-59724-9
- EAN: 9783319597249
- Produktnummer: 22947677
- Verlag: Springer Nature EN
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 452 S.
- Masse: H21.0 cm x B14.8 cm 7'173 g
- Auflage: 1st ed. 2018
- Abbildungen: schwarz-weiss Illustrationen, farbige Illustrationen, Tabellen, farbig
- Gewicht: 7173
- Sonstiges: Research
Über den Autor
Burkhard Schnepel is Professor of Social Anthropology at the Martin Luther University in Halle, Germany, and a Fellow at the Max Planck Institute of Social Anthropology. Edward A. Alpers is Research Professor in the Department of History at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA
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