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An innovative collection of essays that foregrounds specific cargoes as a means to understand connectivity and mobility across the Indian Ocean world.
Scholars have long appreciated the centrality of trade and commerce in understanding the connectivity and mobility that underpin human experience in the Indian Ocean region. But studies of merchant and commercial activities have paid little attention to the role that cargoes have played in connecting the disparate parts of this vast oceanic world. Drawing from the work of anthropologists, geographers, and historians, Cargoes in Motion tells the story of how material objects have informed and continue to shape processes of exchange across the Indian Ocean.
By following selected cargoes through both space and time, this book makes an important and innovative contribution to Indian Ocean studies. The multidisciplinary approach deepens our understanding of the nature and dynamics of the Indian Ocean world by showing how transoceanic connectivity has been driven not only by economic, social, cultural, and political factors but also by the materiality of the objects themselves.
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An innovative collection of essays that foregrounds specific cargoes as a means to understand connectivity and mobility across the Indian Ocean world.
Scholars have long appreciated the centrality of trade and commerce in understanding the connectivity and mobility that underpin human experience in the Indian Ocean region. But studies of merchant and commercial activities have paid little attention to the role that cargoes have played in connecting the disparate parts of this vast oceanic world. Drawing from the work of anthropologists, geographers, and historians, Cargoes in Motion tells the story of how material objects have informed and continue to shape processes of exchange across the Indian Ocean.
By following selected cargoes through both space and time, this book makes an important and innovative contribution to Indian Ocean studies. The multidisciplinary approach deepens our understanding of the nature and dynamics of the Indian Ocean world by showing how transoceanic connectivity has been driven not only by economic, social, cultural, and political factors but also by the materiality of the objects themselves.
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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.
Burkhard Schnepel is a professor of social anthropology at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg. From 2013 to 2020, he was head of the Connectivity in Motion: Port Cities of the Indian Ocean fellows group at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle. He is the author of The King’s Three Bodies: Essays on Kingship and Ritual and a coeditor of Travelling Pasts: The Politics of Cultural Heritage in the Indian Ocean World. Julia Verne is a professor of cultural geography at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, where she leads a research group on mobility, materiality, and maritimity, with a focus on the western Indian Ocean. Her publications include Living Translocality: Space, Culture, and Economy in Contemporary Swahili Trade and several articles discussing the Indian Ocean as a relational space.
This volume addresses an important and thus far somewhat
understudied topical focus in the field of Indian Ocean studies:
the material things that actually traversed the ocean as shipments
facilitating and realizing trade and creating various kinds of
(often long-sustained) meaningful interaction on different
littorals. The result is a unique and stimulating selection of
carefully worked case studies, which together make a significant
contribution to the growing field of Indian Ocean studies.
Burkhard Schnepel and Julia Verne’s Cargoes in Motion is a
wide-ranging, thought-provoking, and timely addition to Indian
Ocean studies. Contributors to the volume employ diverse approaches
to material exchanges, including new lines of inquiry and the
critical reconsideration of well-known objects of exchange. An
innovative collection that makes important conceptual and empirical
contributions to multiple fields, Cargoes in Motion deserves a wide
audience.”
Cargoes in Motion is a timely and valuable book to researchers in
the field of Indian Ocean studies. The in-depth engagement with
which authors handle their respective topics makes this book
invaluable for experts, and its clarity and neat outline invites
non-specialists as well. What stands out is the interdisciplinary
focus on cargo, which makes this a great read for researchers from
varied disciplines.
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