Southeast Asia In The Ancient Indian Ocean World

Author : Tom Hoogervorst
Publisher : BAR International Series
Page : 0 pages
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Release : 2013
Category : Archaeology
ISBN : 1407312030

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Southeast Asia in the Ancient Indian Ocean World by Tom Hoogervorst Pdf

This thesis casts a new light on the role of Southeast Asia in the ancient Indian Ocean World. It brings together data and approaches from archaeology and historical linguistics to examine cultural and language contact between Southeast Asia and South Asia, East Africa and the Middle East. The interdisciplinary approach employed in this study reveals that insular Southeast Asian seafarers, traders and settlers had impacted on these parts of the world in pre-modern times through the transmission of numerous biological and cultural items. It is further demonstrated that the words used for these commodities often contain clues about the precise ethno-linguistic communities involved in their transoceanic dispersal. The Methodology chapter introduces some common linguistic strategies to examine language contact and lexical borrowing, to determine the directionality of loanwords and to circumvent the main caveats of such an approach. The study then proceeds to delve deeper into the socio-cultural background of interethnic contact in the Bay of Bengal and the Indian Ocean as a whole, focusing on the oft-neglected Southeast Asian contributions to the cultural landscape of this region and addressing the nature of pre-modern contact between Southeast Asia and the different parts of the Indian Ocean Word. Following from that, the last three chapters look in-depth at the dispersal of respectively Southeast Asian plants, spices and maritime technology into the wider Indian Ocean World. Although concepts and their names do not always neatly travel together across ethno-linguistic boundaries, these chapters demonstrate how a closer examination of lexical data offers supportive evidence and new perspectives on events of cultural contact not otherwise documented. Cumulatively, this study underlines that the analysis of lexical data is a strong tool to examine interethnic contact, particularly in pre-literate societies. Throughout the Indian Ocean World, Southeast Asian products and concepts were mainly dispersed by Malay-speaking communities, although others played a role as well.

Author : Edward A. Alpers
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195337877

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The Indian Ocean in World History by Edward A. Alpers Pdf

The Indian Ocean in World History explores the cultural exchanges that took place in this region from ancient to modern times.

Author : Michael Pearson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137566249

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Trade, Circulation, and Flow in the Indian Ocean World by Michael Pearson Pdf

Trade, Circulation, and Flow in the Indian Ocean World is a collection which covers a long time span and diverse areas around the ocean. Many of the essays look at the Indian Ocean before Europeans arrived, reminding the reader that there was a cohesive Indian Ocean. This collection includes empirical studies and essays focused on particular area or production. The essays cover various aspects of trade and exchange, the Indian Ocean as a world-system, East African and Chinese connections with the Indian Ocean World, and the movement of people and ideas around the ocean.

Author : Himanshu Prabha Ray
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000220674

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The Archaeology of Knowledge Traditions of the Indian Ocean World by Himanshu Prabha Ray Pdf

This book examines knowledge traditions that held together the fluid and overlapping maritime worlds of the Indian Ocean in the premodern period, as evident in the material and archaeological record. It breaks new ground by shifting the focus from studying cross-pollination of ideas from textual sources to identifying this exchange of ideas in archaeological and historical documentation. The themes covered in the book include conceptualization of the seas and maritime landscapes in Sanskrit, Arabic and Chinese narratives; materiality of knowledge production as indicated in the archaeological record of communities where writing on stone first appears; and anchoring the coasts, not only through an understanding of littoral shrines and ritual landscapes, but also by an analysis of religious imagery on coins, more so at the time of the introduction of new religions such as Islam in the Indian Ocean around the eighth century. This volume will be of great interest to researchers and scholars of archaeology, anthropology, museum and heritage studies, Indian Ocean studies, maritime studies, South and Southeast Asian studies, religious studies and cultural studies.

Author : Angela Schottenhammer
Publisher : Springer
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319978017

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Early Global Interconnectivity across the Indian Ocean World, Volume II by Angela Schottenhammer Pdf

This volume investigates the emergence and spread of maritime commerce and interconnectivity across the Indian Ocean World—the world’s first “global economy”—from a longue durée perspective. Spanning from antiquity to the nineteenth century, these essays move beyond the usual focus on geographical sub-regions or thematic aspects to foreground inter- and trans-regional connections. Focusing on the role of religion in the expansion of commerce and exchange across the region, as well as on technology and knowledge transfer, volume II covers shipbuilding and navigation technologies, porcelain production, medicinal knowledge, and mules as a commodity and means of transportation.

Author : Gwyn Campbell
Publisher : Springer
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319338224

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Early Exchange between Africa and the Wider Indian Ocean World by Gwyn Campbell Pdf

This volume comprises a selection of essays by scholars from a variety of disciplines that discuss the exchange relationship between Africa and the wider Indian Ocean world (IOW), a macro-region running from East Africa to China, from early times to about 1300 CE. The rationale for regarding this macro-region as a “world” is the central significance of the monsoon system which facilitated the early emergence of long-distance trans-IOW maritime exchange of commodities, peoples, plants, animals, technologies and ideas.

Author : Himanshu Prabha Ray
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000220735

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The Archaeology of Knowledge Traditions of the Indian Ocean World by Himanshu Prabha Ray Pdf

This book examines knowledge traditions that held together the fluid and overlapping maritime worlds of the Indian Ocean in the premodern period, as evident in the material and archaeological record. It breaks new ground by shifting the focus from studying cross-pollination of ideas from textual sources to identifying this exchange of ideas in archaeological and historical documentation. The themes covered in the book include conceptualization of the seas and maritime landscapes in Sanskrit, Arabic and Chinese narratives; materiality of knowledge production as indicated in the archaeological record of communities where writing on stone first appears; and anchoring the coasts, not only through an understanding of littoral shrines and ritual landscapes, but also by an analysis of religious imagery on coins, more so at the time of the introduction of new religions such as Islam in the Indian Ocean around the eighth century. This volume will be of great interest to researchers and scholars of archaeology, anthropology, museum and heritage studies, Indian Ocean studies, maritime studies, South and Southeast Asian studies, religious studies and cultural studies.

Author : Marie-Françoise Boussac,Jean-François Salles,Jean-Baptiste Yon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 9384082074

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Ports of the Ancient Indian Ocean by Marie-Françoise Boussac,Jean-François Salles,Jean-Baptiste Yon Pdf

Ports of the Ancient Indian Ocean looks at the multisided role that 'ports' played in the exchange and transfer of knowledge between the 'Indian Ocean' and Mediterranean societies. Through the early Greek Periplus to minute descriptions by the Portuguese in the late sixteenth century or French archives of the colonial period, an accurate knowledge was gradually developed and transmitted on what is now called the Indian Ocean. The contributions focus on the nature of this knowledge, its history and status, using and combining new archaeological data and recent publications of textual material. They deal with material originating from the Red Sea to India, through Arabia and the Persian Gulf, shedding a new light on ancient ports and maritime contacts, with a special interest not only on India but on related areas as well, such as Sri Lanka and South-East Asia.

Author : Kenneth McPherson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015038552074

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The Indian Ocean by Kenneth McPherson Pdf

By the sixteenth century Europeans were part of this world as partners in trade with the indigenous peoples, but from the eighteenth century this economic relationship changed as the economies of the Indian Ocean world integrated with the capitalist economies of the West. The change from commercialism to capitalism ended the insularity of the Indian Ocean world and began its integration, as a region, into the global economy and its territorial division amongst various European powers. This transition altered the ancient web of regional relationships and, with the arrival of European settlers and rulers, added yet another layer to the palimpsest of cultures which flourished on the shores of the Ocean. By the twentieth century the Ocean was no longer a major force binding the peoples on its shores in a selfconscious entity, but the legacy of the past is still evident in their common religious, cultural and historical experience.

Author : Milo Kearney
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Indian Ocean Region
ISBN : 0415312779

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The Indian Ocean in World History by Milo Kearney Pdf

The history of the Indian Ocean provides a snapshot of many of the key issues in world history.

Author : Debi Prasad Chattopadhyaya,Om Prakash
Publisher : Pearson Education India
Page : 736 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Indian Ocean
ISBN : 8131732231

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The Trading World of the Indian Ocean, 1500-1800 by Debi Prasad Chattopadhyaya,Om Prakash Pdf

Author : Gwyn Campbell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108578622

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Africa and the Indian Ocean World from Early Times to Circa 1900 by Gwyn Campbell Pdf

The history of Africa's historical relationship with the rest of the Indian Ocean world is one of a vibrant exchange that included commodities, people, flora and fauna, ideas, technologies and disease. This connection with the rest of the Indian Ocean world, a macro-region running from Eastern Africa, through the Middle East, South and Southeast Asia to East Asia, was also one heavily influenced by environmental factors. In presenting this rich and varied history, Gwyn Campbell argues that human-environment interaction, more than great men, state formation, or imperial expansion, was the central dynamic in the history of the Indian Ocean world (IOW). Environmental factors, notably the monsoon system of winds and currents, helped lay the basis for the emergence of a sophisticated and durable IOW 'global economy' around 1,500 years before the so-called European 'Voyages of Discovery'. Through his focus on human-environment interaction as the dynamic factor underpinning historical developments, Campbell radically challenges Eurocentric paradigms, and lays the foundations for a new interpretation of IOW history.

Author : Rila Mukherjee
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9789811665813

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India in the Indian Ocean World by Rila Mukherjee Pdf

The book integrates the latest scholarly literature on the entire Indian Ocean region, from East Africa to China. Issues such as India's history, India’s changing status in the region, and India's cross-cultural networking over a long period are explored in this book. It is organized in specific themes in thirteen chapters. It incorporates a wealth of research on India’s strategic significance in the Indian Ocean arena throughout history. It enriches the reader's understanding of the emergence of the Indian Ocean basin as a global arena for cross-cultural networking and nation-building. It discusses issues of trade and commerce, the circulation of ideas, peoples and objects, and social and religious themes, focusing on Hinduism, Buddhism, and Islam. The book provides a refreshingly different survey of India’s connected history in the Indian Ocean region starting from the archaeological record and ending with the coming of empire. The author’s unique experience, combined with an engaging writing style, makes the book highly readable. The book contributes to the field of global history and is of great interest to researchers, policymakers, teachers, and students across the fields of political, cultural, and economic history and strategic studies.

Author : Angela Schottenhammer
Publisher : Springer
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2019-02-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319976679

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Early Global Interconnectivity across the Indian Ocean World, Volume I by Angela Schottenhammer Pdf

This volume investigates the emergence and spread of maritime commerce and interconnectivity across the Indian Ocean World—the world’s first “global economy”—from a longue durée perspective. Spanning from antiquity to the nineteenth century, these essays move beyond the usual focus on geographical sub-regions or thematic aspects to foreground inter- and trans-regional connections. Analyzing multi-lingual records and recent archaeological findings, volume I examines mercantile networks, the role of merchants, routes, and commodities, as well as diasporas and port cities.

Author : Himanshu Prabha Ray
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000166514

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Coastal Shrines and Transnational Maritime Networks across India and Southeast Asia by Himanshu Prabha Ray Pdf

This book breaks new ground by examining trans-oceanic connectivity through the perspective of coastal shrines and maritime cultural landscapes across the Bay of Bengal and the South China Sea. It covers a period of expanding networks and cross-cultural encounters from the 3rd century BCE to the 13th century CE. The book examines the distinctiveness of these shrines, and highlights their interconnections, and their role in social integration in South and Southeast Asia. By drawing on data from shipwreck sites, the author elaborates on the material and religious intersections and transmissions between cultures across the seas. Many of these coastal shrines survived into the colonial period when they came to be admired for their aesthetic value as ‘monuments’. As nation states of the region became independent, these shrines were often inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage List on account of their Outstanding Universal Values. The book argues that in the 21st century there is a need to promote the cultural connectivity of the past as transnational heritage on UNESCO’s global platform to preserve and protect our shared heritage. The volume will be essential reading for academics and researchers of archaeology, anthropology, museum and heritage studies, history of South and Southeast Asia, religious studies, cultural studies, and Asian studies.