Connecting continents : archaeology and history in the Indian Ocean world / edited by Krish Seetah.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Seetah, Krish, editor.

Series:

Indian Ocean studies series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Archaeology and history.

Antiquities.

Indian Ocean Region--Antiquities--Study and teaching.

Indian Ocean Region.

Archaeology and history--Indian Ocean Region.

Antiquities--Study and teaching.

Physical Description:

viii, 419 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [2018]

Summary:

"In recent decades, the vast and culturally diverse Indian Ocean region has increasingly attracted the attention of anthropologists, historians, political scientists, sociologists, and other researchers. Largely missing from this growing body of scholarship, however, are significant contributions by archaeologists and consciously interdisciplinary approaches to studying the region's past and present. Connecting Continents addresses two important issues: how best to promote collaborative research on the Indian Ocean world, and how to shape the research agenda for a region that has only recently begun to attract serious interest from historical archaeologists. The archaeologists, historians, and other scholars who have contributed to this volume tackle important topics such as the nature and dynamics of migration, colonization, and cultural syncretism that are central to understanding the human experience in the Indian Ocean basin. This groundbreaking work also deepens our understanding of topics of increasing scholarly and popular interest, such as the ways in which people construct and understand their heritage and can make use of exciting new technologies like DNA and environmental analysis. Because it adopts such an explicitly comparative approach to the Indian Ocean, Connecting Continents provides a compelling model for multidisciplinary approaches to studying other parts of the globe"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Interdisciplinary ripples across the Indian Ocean / Krish Seetah and Richard B. Allen

Investigating premodern colonization of the Indian Ocean : the remote islands enigma / Atholl Anderson, Aaron Camens, Geoffrey Clark, and Simon Haberle

Facing Mecca from Africa : Islam and globalization on the Swahili coast during the first millennium CE and beyond / Mark Horton, Alison Crowther, and Nicole Boivin

Researching the history of the Indian Ocean world : an interdisciplinary approach / Edward A. Alpers

History, historical archaeology, and the "history of silence" : forced and free labor migration in the Indian Ocean, 1700/1900 / Richard B. Allen

The archaeology of colonial encounters in coastal East Africa : recent developments and continuing conceptual challenges / Paul J. Lane

Historical archaeology of pearling in the Indian Ocean : through the lens of Northwest Australia / Alistair Paterson

Interdisciplinarity as image : at the intersections of historical, heritage, and media approaches in the Indian Ocean world / Diana Heise and Martin Mhando

Archaeology and religious syncretism in Mauritius / SasÌŒa CÌŒaval

Archaeology and the process of heritage construction in Mauritius / Diego Calaon and Corinne Forest

Climate and disease in the Indian Ocean : an interdisciplinary study from Mauritius / Krish Seetah.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

9780821423264

0821423266

OCLC:

1004759930

Publisher Number:

99977964889