Cargoes in Motion

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.

Preface (JULIA VERNE)

Acknowledgments

Introduction. Cargoes in the Indian Ocean World: A Thematic and Methodological Introduction (BURKHARD SCHNEPEL)

PART I: CARGOES IN THE MAKING

Chapter 1. Brilliant Cargoes: Pearls, Shell, and Exchanges of Marine Products in the Indian Ocean (PEDRO MACHADO)

Chapter 2. The History of Southern Red Sea Salt in Indian Ocean Trade STEVEN SERELS

Chapter 3. The Flow of Bohea: The Tea Trade in the Indian Ocean World (Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries) (KUNBING XIAO)

Chapter 4. The Journey of Cloves: Historical Trajectories and New Dynamics of Organic Labeling on Zanzibar (RUPERT NEUHÖFER AND HANNAH PILGRIM)

PART II: ON BOARD

Chapter 5. Giraffes and Elephants: Circulation of Exotic Animals in the Longue Durée History of the Indian Ocean World (TANSEN SEN)

Chapter 6. Cattle on the Hoof: The Mozambique Channel Provisioning Trade in the Nineteenth Century (EDWARD A. ALPERS)

Chapter 7. Paper Cargoes, Mobile Histories: A View from the Twentieth-Century Dhow (FAHAD AHMAD BISHARA)

Chapter 8. An Enduring Measure of Twelve Thousand Cowries: The Materialities and Life Histories of a Well-traveled Marine Product (EVA-MARIA KNOLL)

PART III: CARGOES IN USE

Chapter 9. Arab Perfumes and the Indian Ocean Trade in Animal-Derived Aromatics: The Case of Civet (HANNE SCHÖNIG)

Chapter 10. When Gecko Tails Travel from Island Forests to Laboratories: From Materiality to Information in Scientific Cargo (LISA JENNYKRIEG)

Chapter 11. From Cargo to “Inalienable Possessions”: Beads and Beadwork in Penang (MAREIKE PAMPUS)

Chapter 12. The Elephant with the Seven Tusks: Maritime Commodities in East Indonesian Clan Houses and Marriage Cycles (KARL-HEINZ KOHL)

Bibliography

Contributors

Index