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Between Africa and India: thinking comparatively across the western Indian Ocean
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Zentrum Moderner Orient
Abstract "Scholarship on the Indian Ocean is generally comparative in its approach. In this paper, we draw from our research experiences on the Swahili and Gujarati coasts in order to discuss some of the epistemological consequences of comparison for the ways in which East Africa and Western India have been ... view more
"Scholarship on the Indian Ocean is generally comparative in its approach. In this paper, we draw from our research experiences on the Swahili and Gujarati coasts in order to discuss some of the epistemological consequences of comparison for the ways in which East Africa and Western India have been understood. We critically examine the frames and terms of comparison in the work of the historian Thomas Metcalf and the anthropologists A.H.J. Prins, Helene Basu and David F. Pocock. We suggest that the personal journeys of scholars, as well as the sources they use, have profoundly influenced the ways in which they have been able to write and problematize their own material." (author´s abstract)... view less
Keywords
Indian Ocean; anthropology; Caribbean Region; comparative research; East Africa; ethnography
Classification
Ethnology, Cultural Anthropology, Ethnosociology
Document language
English
Publication Year
2011
City
Berlin
Page/Pages
15 p.
Series
ZMO Working Papers, 5
Status
reviewed
Licence
Deposit Licence - No Redistribution, No Modifications