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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Formato: | Libro electrónico |
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
2018.
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Colección: | Palgrave Series in Indian Ocean World Studies.
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Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b38056550*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.