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Monsoon (2023) 1 (1): 92–106.
Published: 01 May 2023
...Nidhi Mahajan Abstract This article examines the multiple, diverse renderings of the past that came to the fore in the Indian Ocean port city of Lamu at the groundbreaking of the Lamu Port, South Sudan, Ethiopia Transport and Economic Development Corridor (LAPSSET) project in 2012...
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Monsoon (2023) 1 (2): 46–59.
Published: 01 November 2023
... in 1968 was a case in point: as “winds of change” blew across Indian Ocean Africa, the impending departure of the British from the island threw into stark relief how different racial groups understood their collective diasporic pasts and weighed potential futures free from British rule. This essay...
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Monsoon (2023) 1 (1): 72–91.
Published: 01 May 2023
... the redistribution of the gifts that arrive 17 and quarrels over burial and succession. 18 Succession itself can only be validated by custodianship over the past, specifically over ancestral relics and corpses that have been subject to dispute for decades, 19 and by the ancestral voices manifest in spirit...
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Monsoon (2024) 2 (2): 69–71.
Published: 01 November 2024
...Gabeba Baderoon [email protected] Copyright © 2024 The Africa Institute 2024 I sink to the bodem and the sea breathes me in, swallows me down its long, blue throat. I follow the almost circle of the bay to Hangklip, 1 eye of a hook, past the black-purple shells of akkrikels...
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Monsoon (2024) 2 (1): 34–47.
Published: 01 May 2024
... Geography 99 ( November 2022 ): 1 – 14 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2022.102638 . Tierney Jessica E. , Ummenhofer Caroline C. , and deMenocal Peter B. “ Past and Future Rainfall in the Horn of Africa .” Science Advances 1 , no. 9 ( 2015 ): e1500682 . https://doi.org...
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Monsoon (2024) 2 (1): 3–12.
Published: 01 May 2024
... justification for the changes made in the Bengali Robinson Crusoe might appear a quaint relic of a transoceanic past. Yet the archive contains material evidence of a moment when readers in the Indian Ocean world were given primacy by the translator of a European literary “classic”—and their location...
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Monsoon (2024) 2 (1): 106–108.
Published: 01 May 2024
... of his work (the term appears numerous times per chapter) while simultaneously musing about modern and future developments. Ostensibly, his point in this nontraditional use of the longue durée framework is to trace the impact and relevance of past historical events to the modern day. While...
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Monsoon (2024) 2 (1): 100–105.
Published: 01 May 2024
... grudges from the pre-European colonial period of Paradise and before are not buried by an obscure past but manifest themselves tangibly as “remnants of blood” in the present. History for Gurnah, as many have formulated in the Indian Ocean and the Archipelagic, is not linear: the long past invades...
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Monsoon (2023) 1 (2): 92–105.
Published: 01 November 2023
... falsehoods, they would no longer be “backward” in their thoughts, nor selfish in their desires. And as they threw off the mental shackles and moral shortcomings of the past, they would become the sort of human material deemed necessary for Zanzibar to achieve true sovereignty. In this way, Zanzibar would...
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Monsoon (2024) 2 (1): 11–21.
Published: 01 May 2024
... to take up one issue quickly. You mentioned that you're not sure whether archipelagic thinking is necessarily archipelagic memory. In the case of Mauritius in the past decades, I would rephrase it (though this is perhaps being too simplistic) in terms of a disjunction between scholars on the one hand...
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Monsoon (2024) 2 (1): 48–57.
Published: 01 May 2024
... , the eel is strongly associated with the male sexual organ, so much so that it becomes a metaphor for the sexual desire that Joséphin is unable to acknowledge due to past trauma. In Anguille sous roche , however, the eel becomes associated with the female protagonist, and its qualities come...
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Monsoon (2023) 1 (1): 107–118.
Published: 01 May 2023
... of the past is built: The date on the deed of manumission establishes it as the earliest document that can be reliably dated to the period of Ben Yiju's stay in India. It is uncertain how long he had been in Mangalore at the time of its writing; it must at any rate have been long enough for him to acquire...
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Monsoon (2023) 1 (2): 120–127.
Published: 01 November 2023
... Mozambique Somalia Edward A. Alpers has been at the center of the development of the fields of Indian Ocean history and African history for the past six decades. His pioneering work in Indian Ocean studies and the histories of Mozambique, Tanzania, Somalia, and the African diaspora in and beyond...
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Monsoon (2024) 2 (1): 22–34.
Published: 01 May 2024
... of the talisman, the aesthetic register of the palimpsest reiterates art, people, and places not as objects that belong to someone—but living things, marked by history, changed, but still beautiful to those who can appreciate the scars and how they heal; those who can see the shadows of the past on the present...
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Monsoon (2023) 1 (2): 106–119.
Published: 01 November 2023
... Planck Institute of Social Anthropology in Halle, Germany. Most of the points presented in this article have been addressed by me in several earlier publications, in greater empirical and theoretical detail than could be offered here. See Schnepel, introduction ; Schnepel, “Travelling Pasts...
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Monsoon (2023) 1 (1): 33–50.
Published: 01 May 2023
..., and no more than 5 percent Shi‘i. 4 It is reasonable to assume that the proportional strength of these sectarian groups has remained roughly the same for the past half-century. Ibadi Islam is the third, and numerically the smallest, of the three major doctrinal divisions in Islam, together...
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Monsoon (2023) 1 (2): 2–25.
Published: 01 November 2023
... of Emerina is very rich in iron [ore], and there are spots where it is even found rising above ground, in lumps of 4 or 5 lbs. weight; it is as soft and malleable as paste, and the natives find little difficulty in smelting it.” 20 Indeed, LMS blacksmith George Chick (1797–1866) claimed that “the iron...
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Monsoon (2023) 1 (2): 60–74.
Published: 01 November 2023
.... Figure 3 Echoes (from Indian Ocean), 2011 – 13. UltraChrome pigment print on Hahnemühle Baryta paper, 50 × 75 cm. © Malala Andrialavidrazana. Courtesy of the artist. ND: You mentioned a blog. When you say in the past, are you speaking about the 2010s? MA: I met Bisi in 2009. I...
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Monsoon (2024) 2 (2): 74–87.
Published: 01 November 2024
... by “locating texts within an intertextual context composed of other works connected across the boundaries of genre.” 12 In addition to form and content, reading occult texts for clues about the past, in this case, the history of the enslaved as coproducers of knowledge, can open new historical narratives...
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Monsoon (2023) 1 (2): 26–45.
Published: 01 November 2023
... for the past fifteen months, he paid ten cents and rented a rickshaw around 4:30 pm to work the night shift. He was known as a hardworking, steady earner: a “chawan” (literally tea-cup) man, presumably because he did not partake of Singapore's many other vices. Yeo worked a profitable route ferrying sailors...
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