The Indian Ocean

Oceanic Connections and the Creation of New Societies
Herausgeber: Sheriff, Abdul; Ho, Engseng

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Produktbeschreibung

The Indian Ocean was the first venue of global trade, connecting the Mediterranean and South China. This book offers an anthropological and historical examination of the impact of maritime trade on wider society.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2014
• Englisch, Schwedisch
• Abmessung: 221mm x 145mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9781849044271
• ISBN-10: 1849044279
• Artikelnr.: 47882606

Autorenporträt

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 settlers from Yemen have made a place for themselves across the Indian Ocean over the last 500 years.