Connectivity in Motion Island Hubs in the Indian Ocean World /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Schnepel, Burkhard (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Alpers, Edward A. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Σειρά: Palgrave Series in Indian Ocean World Studies
• Θέματα: World history.; Civilization-History.; Social history.; Area studies.; Ethnography.; Human geography.; World History, Global and Transnational History.; Cultural History.; Social History.; Area Studies.; Human Geography.

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,...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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.