This original collection brings islands to the fore in a growing body of scholarship on the Indian Ocean, examining them as hubs or points of convergence and divergence in a world of maritime movements and exchanges. Straddling history and anthropology and grounded in the framework of connectivity, the book tackles central themes such as smallness, translocality, and the island factor. It moves to the farthest reaches of the region, with a rich variety of case studies on the Swahili-Comorian world, the Maldives, Indonesia, and more. With remarkable breadth and cohesion, these essays capture the circulations of people, goods, rituals, sociocultural practices, and ideas that constitute the Indian Ocean world. Together, they take up islandness as an explicit empirical and methodological issue as few have done before.
Themes
1. Connectivity in Motion : Island Hubs in the Indian Ocean World
2. Islands Connect: People, Things and Ideas among the Small Islands of the Western Indian Ocean
3. Small Island Hubs and Connectivity in the Indian Ocean World: Some Concepts and Hypotheses from Historical Anthropology
4. Displaced Passengers: States, Movements and Disappearances in the Indian Ocean
Case Studies
Swahili Coast, Zanzibar and the Comoros
5. The Role of Kilwa in the Trade of the Western Indian Ocean
6. Zanzibar, the Indian Ocean and Nineteenth-Century Global Interface
7. Ali Mfaume: A Comorian Hub in the Western Indian Ocean
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