Travelling Pasts: The Politics of Cultural Heritage in the Indian Ocean World

Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-40270-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 1, 276 Seiten, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 544 g

Reihe: Crossroads - History of Interactions across the Silk Routes

Travelling Pasts, edited by Burkhard Schnepel and Tansen Sen, offers an innovative exploration of the issue of heritage in the Indian Ocean world. This collection of essays demonstrates how the heritagization of the past has played a vital role in processes and strategies related to the making of socio-cultural identities, the establishing of political legitimacies, and the pursuit of economic and geopolitical gains. The contributions range from those dealing with the impact of UNESCO’s World Heritage Convention in the Indian Ocean world as a whole to those that address the politics of cultural heritage in various distinct maritime sites such as Zanzibar, Mayotte, Cape Town, the Maldives, Calcutta and Penang. Also examined are the Maritime Silk Road and the Project Mausam initiatives of the Chinese and Indian governments respectively. The volume is an important contribution to the transdisciplinary fields on Indian Ocean Studies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Schnepel, Burkhard

Sen, Tansen

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Geschichte der Schifffahrt
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

List of Figures, Maps and Tables

Notes on Contributors

Travelling Pasts: An Introduction

Burkhard Schnepel

Part 1: Indian Ocean Cultural Heritage and the ‘World’

1 Global Linkages, Connectivity and the Indian Ocean in the UNESCO World Heritage Arena

Christoph Brumann

2 ‘Project Mausam’. India’s Transnational Initiative: Revisiting UNESCO’s World Heritage Convention

Himanshu Prabha Ray

3 The History of the Hajj as Heritage: Asset or Burden to the Saudi State?

Ulrike Freitag

Part 2: (Im-)materialities on the Move

4 Materiality and Mobility: Comparative Notes on Heritagization in the Indian Ocean World

Katja Müller and Boris Wille

5 Ambiguous Pasts: The Indian Ocean World in Cape Town’s Public History

Nigel Worden

Part 3: Travelling Pasts in the Eastern Indian Ocean World

6 Temple Heritage of a Chinese Migrant Community: Movement, Connectivity, and Identity in the Maritime World

Tansen Sen

7 The Uses of ‘Chinese Heritage’: Foreign Policy of the People’s Republic of China in the Contemporary Indo-Pacific World

Geoffrey Wade

8 Heritage Food: The Materialization of Connectivity in Nyonya Cooking

Mareike Pampus

Part 4: Travelling Pasts in the Western Indian Ocean World

9 Contradictions in the Heritagization of Zanzibar ‘Stone Town’

Abdul Sheriff

10 The Production of Identities on the Island of Mayotte: A Historical Perspective

Iain Walker

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Burkhard Schnepel is Professor of Social Anthropology at the Institute for Social Anthropology of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg in Halle, Germany. One of his more recent books is Connectivity in Motion. Islands Hubs in the Indian Ocean World, co-edited with E.A. Alpers (2018).

Tansen Sen is Professor of History and the Director of the Center for Global Asia at NYU Shanghai. His most recent book is entitled India, China, and the World: A Connected History (2017).