Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Graves of TarimCondition: NewEAN: 9780520244542ISBN: 9780520244542Publisher: University of California PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 11/07/2006Item Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmItem Width: 23mmItem Weight: 635gAuthor: Engseng HoLanguage: EnglishSubtitle: Genealogy and Mobility across the Indian OceanISBN-10: 0520244540Description: "The Graves of Tarim" narrates the movement of an old diaspora across the Indian Ocean over the past five hundred years. Ranging from Arabia to India and Southeast Asia, Engseng Ho explores the transcultural exchanges - in kinship and writing - that enabled Hadrami Yemeni descendants of the Muslim prophet Muhammad to become locals in each of the three regions, yet remain cosmopolitans with vital connections across the ocean. At home throughout the Indian Ocean, diasporic Hadramis engaged European empires in surprising ways across its breadth, beyond the usual territorial confines of colonizer and colonized. A work of both anthropology and history, this book brilliantly demonstrates how the emerging fields of world history and transcultural studies are coming together to provide groundbreaking ways of studying religion, diaspora, and empire. Ho interprets biographies, family histories, chronicles, pilgrimage manuals and religious law as the unified literary output of a diaspora that hybridizes both texts and persons within a genealogy of Prophetic descent.By using anthropological concepts to read Islamic texts in Arabic and Malay, he demonstrates the existence of a hitherto unidentified canon of diasporic literature. His supple conceptual framework and innovative use of documentary and field evidence are elegantly combined to present a vision of this vital world region beyond the histories of trade and European empire.Country/Region of Manufacture: USGenre: Society & CultureBook Series: California World History LibraryTopic: Social SciencesRelease Year: 2006 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: The Graves of Tarim
Publication Name: The Graves of Tarim
Title: The Graves of Tarim
EAN: 9780520244542
ISBN: 9780520244542
Publisher: University of California Press
Format: Paperback
Release Date: 11/07/2006
Release Year: 2006
Item Height: 229mm
Item Length: 152mm
Item Width: 23mm
Item Weight: 635g
Author: Engseng Ho
Language: English
Subtitle: Genealogy and Mobility across the Indian Ocean
ISBN-10: 0520244540
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Society & Culture
Series: California World History Library
Topic: Social Sciences
