ISBN:
978-1-55876-453-8
,
978-1-55876-452-1
,
1-55876-452-6
Language:
English
Pages:
xii, 242 Seite
,
Karten
Keywords:
Ost-Afrika Oman
;
Araber, Afrika
;
Komoren
;
Madagaskar
;
Gujarat
;
Somalia
;
Suaheli
;
Mosambik
;
Sakalava
;
Sansibar
;
Indischer Ozean
;
Portugal
;
Geschichte
;
Handel
;
Elfenbein
;
Sklavenhandel
;
Handelsroute
;
Welthandel
;
Frau und Religion
;
Beziehungen Afrika-Asien
;
Guillain, Charles [Leben und Werk]
Abstract:
For centuries, East Africa has played a central role within the Indian Ocean world. The Arabs built the first trade networks there; these were laid siege to by the Portuguese in the sixteenth century, followed by British colonialists in the nineteenth century. An interregional trade linked different subregions of East Africa to other Indian Ocean economies. For example, Hindu merchants from Gujarat played a leading role in the ivory trade of East Africa during the past four centuries. In the nineteenth century, Zanzibar became a major center of the Asian slave trade. While slave trading, slave raiding, and their consequences provide one thematic focus of this book, the author also demonstrates that Indian Ocean commercial networks were much more complex in the range of products exchanged, including luxury goods and staple food items, as well as enforced labor. Islam provided yet another connective tissue linking East Africa to the Indian Ocean world and served as a cultural matrix through which popular beliefs and practices were transmitted. This book offers an eye-opening perspective on an often neglected area of world history
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction -- Part I. The western Indian Ocean -- 1. Gujarat and the trade of East Africa, c. 1500-1800 -- 2. The western Indian Ocean as a regional food network in the nineteenth century -- 3. Indian Ocean Africa: the island factor -- Part II. Coastal East Africa -- 4. Muqdisho in the nineteenth century: a regional perspective -- 5. Futa Benaadir: continuity and change in the traditional cotton textile industry of southern Somalia, c. 1840-1980 -- 6. "Ordinary household chores": ritual and power in a nineteenth-century Swahili women's spirit possession cult -- Part III. The Mozambique Channel -- 7. Madagascar and Mozambique in the nineteenth century: the era of the Sakalava raids (1800-1820) -- 8. A complex relationship: Mozambique and the Comoro Islands in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries -- 9. Littoral Society in the Mozambique Channel -- Notes -- Index
Note:
Literaturangaben; [Collection of previously published essays from the mid-1970s to 2007]
