Cargoes in Motion

Materiality and Connectivity across the Indian Ocean
Herausgeber: Schnepel, Burkhard; Verne, Julia

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Produktbeschreibung

Cargoes in Motion considers both the materiality and special trajectories of cargoes across the Indian Ocean world in order to better understand the processes of exchange and their economic, social, cultural, and political effects on the region.

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Produktdetails

• Indian Ocean Studies Series
• Verlag: Ohio University Press
• Seitenzahl: 358
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Dezember 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 152mm x 230mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 526g
• ISBN-13: 9780821426159
• ISBN-10: 082142615X
• Artikelnr.: 68711585

Autorenporträt

Burkhard Schnepel is a professor of social anthropology at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg. From 2013 to 2020, he was head of the Connectivity in Motion: Port Cities of the Indian Ocean fellows group at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle. He is the author of The King's Three Bodies: Essays on Kingship and Ritual and a coeditor of Travelling Pasts: The Politics of Cultural Heritage in the Indian Ocean World. Julia Verne is a professor of cultural geography at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, where she leads a research group on mobility, materiality, and maritimity, with a focus on the western Indian Ocean. Her publications include Living Translocality: Space, Culture, and Economy in Contemporary Swahili Trade and several articles discussing the Indian Ocean as a relational space.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface (JULIA VERNE)
Acknowledgments
Introduction. Cargoes in the Indian Ocean World: A Thematic and
Methodological Introduction (BURKHARD SCHNEPEL)
PART I: CARGOES IN THE MAKING
Chapter 1. Brilliant Cargoes: Pearls, Shell, and Exchanges of Marine
Products in the Indian Ocean (PEDRO MACHADO)
Chapter 2. The History of Southern Red Sea Salt in Indian Ocean Trade
STEVEN SERELS
Chapter 3. The Flow of Bohea: The Tea Trade in the Indian Ocean World
(Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries) (KUNBING XIAO)
Chapter 4. The Journey of Cloves: Historical Trajectories and New Dynamics
of Organic Labeling on Zanzibar (RUPERT NEUHÖFER AND HANNAH PILGRIM)
PART II: ON BOARD
Chapter 5. Giraffes and Elephants: Circulation of Exotic Animals in the
Longue Durée History of the Indian Ocean World (TANSEN SEN)
Chapter 6. Cattle on the Hoof: The Mozambique Channel Provisioning Trade in
the Nineteenth Century (EDWARD A. ALPERS)
Chapter 7. Paper Cargoes, Mobile Histories: A View from the
Twentieth-Century Dhow (FAHAD AHMAD BISHARA)
Chapter 8. An Enduring Measure of Twelve Thousand Cowries: The
Materialities and Life Histories of a Well-traveled Marine Product
(EVA-MARIA KNOLL)
PART III: CARGOES IN USE
Chapter 9. Arab Perfumes and the Indian Ocean Trade in Animal-Derived
Aromatics: The Case of Civet (HANNE SCHÖNIG)
Chapter 10. When Gecko Tails Travel from Island Forests to
Laboratories: From Materiality to Information in Scientific Cargo (LISA
JENNYKRIEG)
Chapter 11. From Cargo to “Inalienable Possessions”: Beads and Beadwork in
Penang (MAREIKE PAMPUS)
Chapter 12. The Elephant with the Seven Tusks: Maritime Commodities in East
Indonesian Clan Houses and Marriage Cycles (KARL-HEINZ KOHL)
Bibliography
Contributors
Index