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Auteur(s) : Alpers, Edward Alters (1941-....)
Titre(s) : The Indian Ocean in world history [Texte imprimé] / Edward A. Alpers
Publication : Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2014
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (172 p.) : ill., cartes ; 24 cm
Collection : New Oxford world history
Lien à la collection : The new Oxford world history
Comprend : Imagining the Indian Ocean ; The ancient Indian Ocean ; Becoming an Islamic sea
; Intrusions and transitions in the early modern period ; The long nineteenth century
; The last century.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (p. 155-157) and index
"The Indian Ocean remains the least studied of the world's geographic regions, yet
there have been major cultural exchanges across its waters and around its shores from
the third millennium B.C.E. to the present day. Historian Edward A. Alpers explores
the complex issues involved in cultural exchange in the Indian Ocean Rim region over
the course of this long period of time by combining a historical approach with the
insights of anthropology, art history, ethnomusicology, and geography. The Indian
Ocean witnessed several significant diasporas during the past two millennia, including
migrations of traders, indentured laborers, civil servants, sailors, and slaves throughout
the entire basin. Persians and Arabs from the Gulf came to eastern Africa and Madagascar
as traders and settlers, while Hadramis dispersed from south Yemen as traders and
Muslim teachers to the Comoro Islands, Zanzibar, South India, and Indonesia. Southeast
Asians migrated to Madagascar, and Chinese dispersed from Southeast Asia to the Mascarene
Islands to South Africa. Alpers also explores the cultural exchanges that diasporas
cause, telling stories of identity and cultural transformation through language, popular
religion, music, dance, art and architecture, and social organization. For example,
architectural and decorative styles in eastern Africa, the Red Sea, the Hadramaut,
the Persian Gulf, and western India reflect cultural interchanges in multiple directions.
Similarly, the popular musical form of taarab in Zanzibar and coastal East Africa
incorporates elements of Arab, Indian, and African musical traditions, while the characteristic
frame drum (ravanne) of sega, the widespread Afro-Creole dance of the Mascarene and
Seychelles Islands, probably owes its ultimate origins to Arabia by way of Mozambique.
The Indian Ocean in World History also discusses issues of trade and production that
show the long history of exchange throughout the Indian Ocean world; politics and
empire-building by both regional and European powers; and the role of religion and
religious conversion, focusing mainly on Islam, but also mentioning Hinduism, Buddhism
and Christianity. Using a broad geographic perspective, the book includes references
to connections between the Indian Ocean world and the Americas. Moving into the twentieth
and twenty-first centuries, Alpers looks at issues including the new configuration
of colonial territorial boundaries after World War I, and the search for oil reserves."
-- Publisher's description
Sujet(s) : Échanges culturels -- Indien, Océan
Commerce -- Indien, Océan -- Histoire
Civilisation -- Indien, Océan (région)
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780195337877 (alk. paper). - ISBN 0195337875 (alk. paper). - ISBN 9780195165937
(alk. paper). - ISBN 0195165934 (alk. paper)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb438092736
Notice n° :
FRBNF43809273
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