The Archaeology of Modern Worlds in the Indian Ocean, livre ebook

Case studies that show the importance of the Indian Ocean region to the emergence of modernity and globalization

This volume brings together a diverse range of specialists working in multiple areas of the Indian Ocean world, providing broad geographical coverage and comparisons across sites. Contributors use a historical archaeological approach, which bridges everyday life in the recent past with large-scale processes of globalization, to examine topics related to colonialism, labor, race, ethnicity, diaspora, human-environment relationships, and heritage.

Case studies from Zanzibar, Mauritius and the Mascarene islands, India, Indonesia, Java, and other locations emphasize networks and connections across the Indian Ocean. Contributors apply a variety of disciplinary methods, including bioanthropology, analysis of medieval illustrations and colonial documents, architectural history, and anthropology of built space. They discuss the material history of domestic areas, religious structures, and colonial outposts; the structure of the slave trade; and the everyday implications of disease and health management within laboring populations.

This volume decenters European narratives and actors to show the important ways this region shaped the modern world. By highlighting the experiences of ordinary people in East Africa and South and Southeast Asia, the research in these chapters contributes to a better understanding of histories in the Global South over the last four hundred years.

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Chapter 1. The Archaeology of Modern Worlds in the Indian Ocean: An Introduction
Mark William Hauser and Julia Jong Haines

Chapter 2. The Maqāmāt Ship: Image as Source in Historical Archaeology of the Indian Ocean
Mick de Ruyter

Chapter 3. A Thousand Years of Connections between the Indian Ocean Region and Southeast Asia
Ellen Hsieh and Takashi Sakai

Chapter 4. Connectivity and Small Island Historical Archaeology in the Indian Ocean
Krish Seetah, Stefania Manfio, and Akshay Sarathi

Chapter 5. Healthcare Inequality and Reticence in the Mascarenes: The Contribution of Historical Archaeology
Saša Čaval and Alessandra Cianciosi

Chapter 6. The Archaeology of Portuguese Agricultural Outposts in the Seventeenth-Century Zanzibar Countryside
Adria LaViolette and Neil Norman

Chapter 7. Sources for Analyzing the Social and Economic Contexts of the Diaspora on the Coromandel Coast
V. Selvakumar and Mark William Hauser

Chapter 8. Diaspora in the Domestic: A Comparative Approach to Tamil Nadu and Mauritius
Julia Jong Haines and Mark William Hauser

Chapter 9. Approaching Past, Present, and Future Urbanisms in Goa, India
Brian C. Wilson

Chapter 10. Commentary: The Swahili World and Its Global Connections
Chapurukha M. Kusimba

Chapter 11. Commentary: A Perspective from South Asia
Supriya Varma

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