Cargoes in Motion: Materiality and Connectivity across the Indian Ocean

Authors

Burkhard Schnepel
Julia Verne

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Series

Indian Ocean Studies Series

Description

An innovative collection of essays that foregrounds specific cargoes as a means to understand connectivity and mobility across the Indian Ocean world.

Scholars have long appreciated the centrality of trade and commerce in understanding the connectivity and mobility that underpin human experience in the Indian Ocean region. But studies of merchant and commercial activities have paid little attention to the role that cargoes have played in connecting the disparate parts of this vast oceanic world. Drawing from the work of anthropologists, geographers, and historians, Cargoes in Motion tells the story of how material objects have informed and continue to shape processes of exchange across the Indian Ocean.

By following selected cargoes through both space and time, this book makes an important and innovative contribution to Indian Ocean studies. The multidisciplinary approach deepens our understanding of the nature and dynamics of the Indian Ocean world by showing how transoceanic connectivity has been driven not only by economic, social, cultural, and political factors but also by the materiality of the objects themselves.

Essays by:
Edward A. Alpers
Fahad Ahmad Bishara
Eva-Maria Knoll
Karl-Heinz Kohl
Lisa Jenny Krieg
Pedro Machado
Rupert Neuhöfer
Mareike Pampus
Hannah Pilgrim
Burkhard Schnepel
Hanne Schönig
Tansen Sen
Steven Serels
Julia Verne
Kunbing Xiao

Copyright Statement

Cargoes in Motion © 2022 by Ohio University Press is licensed under Creative Commons License CC BY-NC-ND. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Language

eng

ISBN

9780821447475

Publication Date

2022

Publisher

Ohio University Press

City

Athens

Keywords

Indian Ocean, cargo, mobility, materiality, connectivity, object biographies, social anthropology, human geography, spice trade, animal trade, transoceanic exchange, East Africa, South Asia, South East Asia, East Asia, Middle East, Arabian Peninsula

Disciplines

Asian Studies | International Business | Social and Cultural Anthropology

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.

Recommended Citation

Schnepel, Burkhard and Verne, Julia, "Cargoes in Motion: Materiality and Connectivity across the Indian Ocean" (2022). Ohio University Press Open Access Books. 29.
https://ohioopen.library.ohio.edu/oupress/29