The Indian Ocean : oceanic connections and the creation of new societies /
Sheriff, Abdul,editor of compilation.
Ho, Engseng,1961-editor of compilation.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Globalisation with a difference: an overview / Abdul Sheriff -- Part 1: Oceanic movements and connections -- Maritime trade, political relations and residential diplomacy in the world of the Indian Ocean / Ravi Arvind Palat -- Mapping the Indian Ocean world of Gulf merchants c. 1870-1960 / Fahad Ahmad Bishara -- Between Pori, Pwani and Kisiwani: overlapping labour cultures in the caravans, ports and dhows of the Western Indian Ocean / Stephen J. Rockel -- The question of slavery in Indian Ocean world history / Gwyn Campbell -- Indentured labour in the Indian Ocean and the creation of new societies / Vijayalakshmi Teelock -- Part 2: Migrations and the formation of new societies -- The state of Swahili civilisation: Swahili language and society, Indian Ocean antecedents and anthropological research / Mohamed Bakari -- Cosmopolitanism or exclusion? Negotiating identity in the expressive culture of contemporary Zanzibar / Paola Ivanov -- Identity and citizenship among the Comorians of Zanzibar, 1886-1963 / Iain Walker -- Philanthropy and trust in the straits of Melaka: Diversities in civil and global approaches to nationhood’s / Wazir Jahan Karim.
Ocean travel.
Cultural relations.
Ethnology