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Cargoes in Motion : Materiality and Connectivity Across the Indian Ocean.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Indian Ocean Studies SeriesPublisher: Athens, OH : Ohio University Press, 2022Copyright date: ©2022Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (314 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780821447475
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Cargoes in MotionDDC classification:
  • 388.04409165
LOC classification:
  • HE199.I55 .C374 2022
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction Cargoes in the Indian Ocean World: A Thematic and Methodological Introduction -- Part I: Cargoes in the Making -- Chapter 1: Brilliant Cargoes: Pearls, Shell, and Exchanges of Marine Products in the Indian Ocean -- Chapter 2: The History of Southern Red Sea Salt in Indian Ocean Trade -- Chapter 3: The Flow of Bohea: The Tea Trade in the Indian Ocean World (Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries) -- Chapter 4: The Journey of Cloves: Historical Trajectories and New Dynamics of Organic Labeling on Zanzibar -- Part II: On Board -- Chapter 5: Giraffes and Elephants: Circulation of Exotic Animals in the Longue Durée History of the Indian Ocean World -- Chapter 6: Cattle on the Hoof: The Mozambique Channel Provisioning Trade in the Nineteenth Century -- Chapter 7: Paper Cargoes, Mobile Histories: A View from the Twentieth-Century Dhow -- Chapter 8: An Enduring Measure of Twelve Thousand Cowries: The Materialities and Life Histories of a Well-traveled Marine Product -- Part III: Cargoes in Use -- Chapter 9: Arab Perfumes and the Indian Ocean Trade in Animal-Derived Aromatics: The Case of Civet -- Chapter 10: When Gecko Tails Travel from Island Forests to Laboratories: From Materiality to Information in Scientific Cargo -- Chapter 11: From Cargo to "Inalienable Possessions": Beads and Beadwork in Penang -- Chapter 12: The Elephant with the Seven Tusks: Maritime Commodities in East Indonesian Clan Houses and Marriage Cycles -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index.
Summary: Cargoes in Motion considers both the materiality and special trajectories of cargoes across the Indian Ocean world in order to better understand the processes of exchange and their economic, social, cultural, and political effects on the region.
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Intro -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction Cargoes in the Indian Ocean World: A Thematic and Methodological Introduction -- Part I: Cargoes in the Making -- Chapter 1: Brilliant Cargoes: Pearls, Shell, and Exchanges of Marine Products in the Indian Ocean -- Chapter 2: The History of Southern Red Sea Salt in Indian Ocean Trade -- Chapter 3: The Flow of Bohea: The Tea Trade in the Indian Ocean World (Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries) -- Chapter 4: The Journey of Cloves: Historical Trajectories and New Dynamics of Organic Labeling on Zanzibar -- Part II: On Board -- Chapter 5: Giraffes and Elephants: Circulation of Exotic Animals in the Longue Durée History of the Indian Ocean World -- Chapter 6: Cattle on the Hoof: The Mozambique Channel Provisioning Trade in the Nineteenth Century -- Chapter 7: Paper Cargoes, Mobile Histories: A View from the Twentieth-Century Dhow -- Chapter 8: An Enduring Measure of Twelve Thousand Cowries: The Materialities and Life Histories of a Well-traveled Marine Product -- Part III: Cargoes in Use -- Chapter 9: Arab Perfumes and the Indian Ocean Trade in Animal-Derived Aromatics: The Case of Civet -- Chapter 10: When Gecko Tails Travel from Island Forests to Laboratories: From Materiality to Information in Scientific Cargo -- Chapter 11: From Cargo to "Inalienable Possessions": Beads and Beadwork in Penang -- Chapter 12: The Elephant with the Seven Tusks: Maritime Commodities in East Indonesian Clan Houses and Marriage Cycles -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index.

Cargoes in Motion considers both the materiality and special trajectories of cargoes across the Indian Ocean world in order to better understand the processes of exchange and their economic, social, cultural, and political effects on the region.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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