Journeys and dwellings / edited by Helene Basu
- Bib ID:
- 4549466
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- Description:
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- Hyderabad : Orient Longman, c2008
- ix, 338 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 9788125031413
- 8125031413
- Series:
- Indian Ocean themes in South Asia
- Summary:
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Contributed articles presented at a workshop on Western India and the Indian Ocean held at the Conference of Modern South Asian Studies in Heidelberg, 1999.
- Full contents:
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- Machine derived contents note: I. COSMOPOLITANISM VERSUS PAROCHIALISM
- 1. Indian Ocean World Travellers: Moving Models
- in Multi-Sited Research 21
- Ned Bertz
- 2. The Dhow Culture of the Western Indian Ocean 61
- Abdul Sheriff
- 3. Sailors That Do Not Sail: Hinduism, Anthropology
- and Parochialism in the Indian Ocean 90
- Edward Simpson
- II. THE PRESENCE OF THE OCEAN
- IN COASTAL SETTINGS
- 4. Indian Ocean Trade and the Merchant Castes:
- India's West Coast, 1500-1800 125
- Harald Tambs-Lyche
- 5. The Constitution of Islamic Community
- in Sri Lanka: Sufi Networks, Saints' Shrines
- and Ritual Practice 147
- Llyn Smith
- 6. Dialectics of Autochthony and Foreignness
- in the Bhuta Cults of the Kanara Coast 174
- Marine Carrin
- 7. Transformations of Trans-oceanic Relationships:
- The Gulf Migration and the Nayars of South India 198
- Elizabeth H. Chettur
- III. AFRICAN AND ARAB PRESENCES IN INDIA
- 8. A Gendered Indian Ocean Site: Mai Mishra, African
- Spirit Possession and Sidi Women in Gujarat 227
- Helene Basu
- 9. Spiritual Journeys: Parsis and Sidi Saints 256
- Beheroze Shroff
- 10. On the Presence of African Musical Culture
- in Coastal Baluchistan 276
- Sabir Badalkhan
- 11. Daff Music of Yemeni-Habshi in Hyderabad 288
- Helene Basu, Kerrin von Schwerin, Ababu Minda.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 309-326) and index.
- Subject:
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- Merchants -- Indian Ocean -- History
- Indian Ocean -- Civilization -- Congresses
- India -- Civilization -- Congresses
- Indian Ocean -- Commerce -- History -- Congresses
- India -- Commerce -- History -- Congresses
- Indian Ocean -- Emigration and immigration -- Congresses
- India -- Emigration and immigration -- Congresses
- Other authors/contributors:
- Basu, Helene
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- Library of Congress -- New Delhi Overseas Office
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