Connectivity in Motion (eBook)

Burkhard Schnepel is Professor of Social Anthropology at the Martin Luther University in Halle, Germany, and a Fellow at the Max Planck Institute of Social Anthropology. Edward A. Alpers is Research Professor in the Department of History at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA

Themes1. "Connectivity in Motion": Island Hubs in the Indian Ocean World2. Islands Connect: People, Things and Ideas among the Small Islands of the Western Indian Ocean3. Small Island Hubs and Connectivity in the Indian Ocean World: Some Concepts and Hypotheses from Historical Anthropology4. Displaced Passengers: States, Movements and Disappearances in the Indian OceanCase StudiesSwahili Coast, Zanzibar and the Comoros5. The Role of Kilwa in the Trade of the Western Indian Ocean6. Zanzibar, the Indian Ocean and Nineteenth-Century Global Interface7. Ali Mfaume: A Comorian Hub in the Western Indian Ocean8. Multifaceted Identities, Multiple Dwellings: Connectivity and Flexible Household Configurations in Zanzibar TownCase StudiesMid-Ocean Archipelagos9. A Hub of "Local Cosmopolitans": Migration and Settlement in Early Eighteenth- to Nineteenth-Century Port Louis10. The Making of a Hub Society: Mauritius' Path from Port of Call to Cyber Island11. Dis/Entangled Hubs: Connectivity and Disconnections in the Chagos Archipelago12. Big Men Politics and Insularity in the Maldivian World of Islands13. Considering the Island Capital Male' as a Hub for Health-Related MobilitiesCase StudiesSouth and Southeast Asia14. From Salsette to Socotra: Islands across the Seas and Implications for Heritage15. Serendipitous Connections: The Chinese Engagements with Sri Lanka16. Changing Connectivity in a World of Small Islands: The Role of Makassar (Sulawesi) as a Hub Under Dutch Hegemony17. Ambon, a Spicy Hub: Connectivity at the Fringe of the Indian Ocean