Graves of Tarim Genealogy and Mobility Across the Indian Ocean

Name: Graves of Tarim Genealogy and Mobility Across the Indian Ocean
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ISBN: 9780520244542

ISBN-10: 0520244540

ISBN-13: 9780520244542

Edition: 2006

Authors: Engseng Ho

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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…

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List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 11/7/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 388
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.72" long x 0.92" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Note on Dates, Abbreviations, and Transliteration


Preface: Hadrami Society, and Old Diaspora



Burial



The Society of the Absent



Geography, a Pathway through History



A Resolute Localism


Conclusion to Part I: Making Tarim a Place of Return



Genealogical Travel



Ecumenical Islam in an Oceanic World



Hybrid Texts: Genealogy as Light and as Law



Creole Kinship: Genealogy as Gift


Conclusion to Part II: Local Cosmopolitans



Returns



Return as Pilgrimage



Repatriation



The View from the Verandah



Evictions


Concluding Remarks: Names beyond Nations


Bibliography


Index