The Indian Ocean

The Indian Ocean was first venue of global trade, connecting the Mediterranean and South China. This book offers an anthropological and historical examination of the impact of maritime trade on wider society - as a conveyor of goods, but also of ideas and peoples.

About the author

Abdul Sheriff is Director of the Zanzibar Indian Ocean Research Institute and the author of Dhow Cultures of the Indian Ocean Cosmopolitanism, Commerce, and Islam, published by Hurst. Engseng Ho is Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Duke University and author of The Graves of Tarim: Genealogy and Mobility across the Indian Ocean, which tells of how Muslim sailors, scholars, merchants and settlers from Yemen have made a place for themselves across the Indian Ocean over the last 500 years.

Product details

• Authors: Enseng Ho, Abdul Sheriff
• Assisted by: Enseng Ho (Editor), Ho Enseng (Editor), Abdul Sheriff (Editor), Sheriff Abdul (Editor)
• Publisher: Hurst House
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.06.2014
• EAN: 9781849044264
• ISBN: 978-1-84904-426-4
• Dimensions: 143 mm x 218 mm x 21 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book; Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, HISTORY / Maritime History & Piracy, maritime history, Asian History, Indian Ocean, Indian sub-continent, South Asia (Indian sub-continent), HISTORY / Asia / South / General