| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 419 pages) : illustrations, map |
| Series |
Indian Ocean studies series |
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Indian Ocean studies series.
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| Contents |
Interdisciplinary ripples across the Indian Ocean / Krish Seetah and Richard B. Allen -- Investigating premodern colonization of the Indian Ocean : the remote islands enigma / Atholl Anderson, Aaron Camens, Geoffrey Clark, and Simon Haberle -- Facing Mecca from Africa : Islam and globalization on the Swahili coast during the first millennium CE and beyond / Mark Horton, Alison Crowther, and Nicole Boivin -- Researching the history of the Indian Ocean world : an interdisciplinary approach / Edward A. Alpers -- History, historical archaeology, and the "history of silence" : forced and free labor migration in the Indian Ocean, 1700/1900 / Richard B. Allen -- The archaeology of colonial encounters in coastal East Africa : recent developments and continuing conceptual challenges / Paul J. Lane -- Historical archaeology of pearling in the Indian Ocean : through the lens of Northwest Australia / Alistair Paterson -- Interdisciplinarity as image : at the intersections of historical, heritage, and media approaches in the Indian Ocean world / Diana Heise and Martin Mhando -- Archaeology and religious syncretism in Mauritius / Saša Čaval -- Archaeology and the process of heritage construction in Mauritius / Diego Calaon and Corinne Forest -- Climate and disease in the Indian Ocean : an interdisciplinary study from Mauritius / Krish Seetah |
| Summary |
Connecting Continents addresses two issues: how to promote collaborative research, and how to shape the research agenda for a region only recently attracting serious interest from historical archaeologists exploring the dynamics of migration, colonization, and cultural syncretism central to understanding human experience in the Indian Ocean basin |
| Notes |
"This volume had its naissance in a workshop organized at Stanford University in 2014"--Page vii |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-388) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| In |
OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks) OAPEN |
| Subject |
HISTORY -- Asia -- India & South Asia.
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Antiquities -- Study and teaching
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| SUBJECT |
Indian Ocean Region -- Antiquities -- Study and teaching
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| Subject |
Indian Ocean Region
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Seetah, Krish
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Stanford University.
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Connecting Continents Workshop (2014 : Stanford University)
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| ISBN |
9780821446409 |
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0821446401 |
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