Indian Ocean Studies: Cultural, Social, and Political Perspectives

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Shanti Moorthy, Ashraf Jamal
Routledge, Apr 15, 2010 - History - 454 pages

The Indian Ocean is famously referred to as the "cradle of globalization," as it facilitated cultural and economic exchanges between Africa, the Arab world, the Indian subcontinent, Southeast Asia, and China, for 5000 years prior to European presence in the region. As this ocean's significance has gained increasing attention from scholars in recent years, few have examined the 'human' dimensions in Indian Ocean exchanges. Including the work of historians, geographers, anthropologists and literary analysts, each essay in this volume addresses a specific human factor, such as the fate of the creole in the Bay of Bengal, creolization as a globalized phenomenon, migrancy and diaspora, the lives of seafarers then and now, and the lives of those who inhabit the ocean's littoral. This volume is a necessary addition to the field of Indian Ocean studies.

 

Contents

List of Figures xi
Flying Carpets and Artful Politics in the Indian Ocean
Figures
An Ecocultural
by Sir George Gipps in 1845 Painting by G E Peacock 56
Abdulrazak Gurnah and Littoral Cosmopolitanism
Gender and the Languages
Indian Ocean Communities
Kuo Pao Kuns Descendants of the Eunuch Admiral and the Myth
Calcutta the Tagore Circle and
Transformative Complicities
Relocations in South African
Anthropometry and Colonialism in the Indian
Linschoten on Phenotype
Power and Beliefs in Reunion Island
Tourism and Creole Selffashioning in

Indians Australians and Indonesians
The Postmortem Travels of Francis Xavier in
Black
PostOrientalism

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About the author (2010)

Ashraf Jamal is Senior Lecturer in Art History and Visual Culture at Rhodes University, South Africa. He has published numerous essays and monographs, namely Predicaments of Culture in South Africa and the co-authored Art in South Africa: The Future Present.
With Shanti Moorthy he has edited an anthology of Southeast Asian fiction. He is also a director-playwright and fiction writer.

Shanti Moorthy holds a medical degree from Melbourne University and is a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh. Formerly a dancer and nattuvanar with the Melbourne based Bharatam Dance Company and freelance scriptwriter for the Bombay based Antah UTV in Malaysia, Shanti is now a consultant otolaryngologist and Senior Lecturer in Anatomy at Monash University. She co-edited the final volume of Silverfish New Writing 7 in 2007 with Ashraf Jamal and is completing an MA in English Literature, situating the works of Abdulrazak Gurnah in the Indian Ocean World.

Bibliographic information

TitleIndian Ocean Studies: Cultural, Social, and Political Perspectives
Routledge Indian Ocean Series
EditorsShanti Moorthy, Ashraf Jamal
Editionillustrated, reprint
PublisherRoutledge, 2010
ISBN1135269025, 9781135269029
Length454 pages
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