... the physical matter of life on the Swahili coast. © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 material culture transculturation Swahili coast oceanic art histories References Allen James de Vere . “The Kiti Cha Enzi and Other Swahili Chairs.” African Arts 22 , no. 3 ( 1989 ): 54 – 88...

... onceptualizing the Indian Ocean as a region has a rather short history in academic discourse. In 1979, Pierre Chaunu, for example, could still argue that the Indian Ocean was “scarcely more than an extension of the eastern Mediterranean,” an ocean that was not forming...

..., is mentary history of the diaspora on "Africans in Asia? the forced migration of Africans to the islands of the Covering some of the same ground as Harris, but ex- Indian Ocean. Thus, the pre-Islamic experience of these tending his coverage both geographically and tempo- two vast regions...

...Paola Ivanov The Indian Ocean looks back on a long history of exchange concerning luxury goods that were primarily used for personal and interior decoration as well as in performative situations. In view of the primarily aesthetic dimension of the items of trade, Ivanov's article examines the role...

... Arbeitspapiere 47 ( 1996 ): 173 – 96 . Vierke Clarissa . “From across the Ocean: Considering Travelling Literary Figurations as Part of Swahili Intellectual History.” Journal of African Cultural Studies 28 , no. 2 ( 2015 ): 225 – 40 . ———. On the Poetics of the Utendi: A Critical...

... is completing a manuscript He has published widely on modern South Africa, in titled “Trash Matters: Infrastructures and Arts of Citi- periodicals including Journal of Global History, Journal zenship in Dakar, Senegal.” of Historical Sociology, and Public Culture...

..., transcultural musicology, performance studies, archaeology, art history, and the histories of licit and illicit trade across the Indian Ocean. The circulation of film and media between South Asia and the Middle East has recently become the object of scholarly attention. In scholarship that joins...

... to the Muslim World. Istanbul: Research Austin: University of Texas Press, 1979. Centre for Islamic History, Art, and Culture, 1992. Green, Nile. Bombay Islam: The Religious Economy of the West Karaman, Gabor, and Radu G. Paun, eds. Europe and the Indian Ocean, 1840–1915. New York...

... cultural studies journal, man he endured backbreaking and dangerous where his oral history is recorded.81 labor on Indian Ocean ships in order to avail him- On stage, behind the microphone, in the pub- self of opportunities to perform music and com- lic square — and, it would appear, in the more...

... to frame global circularities within Indian Ocean pasts. How have imbrications with other world regions affected the networks and boundaries of the Indian Ocean region? And how have Indian Ocean societies affected the wider world? To answer these questions this article traces Indian Ocean histories within...

... Department of History and Art History at George search focuses on the environmental history of the Mason University, where he teaches courses on early modern Near East and Eurasia...

...- 1780 – 1920.” In Struggling with History: Islam and Cos- tarized consolidation of white power. Hofmeyr mopolitanism in the Western Indian Ocean, edited by alludes to this context but does not engage it in Edward Simpson and Kai Kresse, 203 – 24. New York...

... on the history of the novel. 23 In the “Seventh Voyage of Sindbad the Sailor,” one finds an enumerated list of commodity-like gifts from Harun al-Rashid to the king of the island of Serendib (Sri Lanka). An Arabophone Indian Ocean merchant economy was being translated and retranslated into French...

..., it is con- in particular has emerged as a topos of prolifer- tended that even though Mocha functioned as ating spatial reconfigurations as its history has a “strategic hinge point where the peripheries come to be increasingly conceptualized in terms of the Mediterranean and Indian Ocean worlds...

... of prolifer- tended that even though Mocha functioned as ating spatial reconfigurations as its history has a “strategic hinge point where the peripheries come to be increasingly conceptualized in terms of the Mediterranean and Indian Ocean worlds of overlapping circuits, multidimensional net...

... dimensions of this process, if not its totality. As an historical arena, the Al-Qitami's Indian Ocean world offers a multitude of sites from which one might write the history of global capitalism. Here I offer one particular vantage point: the pearl diving industry of the Persian Gulf—or, more...

... the traditional frame of Middle East specialists that has tended to foreground the history and politics of the core Otto- man provinces of Egypt, Turkey, and Greater Syria at the cost of other Middle Easts. By taking into ac- count the Indian Ocean, this new set of modern histories centered on the Arabian...

... Contributors 413 and South Africa in the Ethnologisches Museum, Prita Meier is an assistant professor of African art Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. After earning her PhD and architectural history at New York University. in Munich in 1997, she worked at the Ethnologisches Her research focuses...

... ”. In The Land/Ocean Interactions in the Coastal Zone of West and Central Africa , edited by Diop Salif Descamps Cyr Barusseau Jean-Paul , 65 – 76 . New York : Springer , 2014 . Barrett A. Igoni . Blackass: A Novel . Minneapolis : Graywolf Press , 2016 . Beiser Vincent...

...-century businessmen no longer brandish a weapon, they are nevertheless able to wield more potent forms of violence in their pursuit of profit. The place of violence in the premodern Indian Ocean has been a relatively contentious topic among scholars of Indian Ocean history. For many decades...