Between Africa and India: thinking comparatively across the western Indian Ocean

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 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)

Location
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
Extent
Online-Ressource, 15 S.
Language
Englisch
Notes
unbekannt

Bibliographic citation
ZMO Working Papers ; Bd. 5

Classification
Politik

Event
Veröffentlichung
(where)
Berlin
(when)
2011
Creator
Kresse, Kai
Simpson, Edward
Contributor
Zentrum Moderner Orient

URN
urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-342411
Rights
Open Access unbekannt; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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Associated

  • Kresse, Kai
  • Simpson, Edward
  • Zentrum Moderner Orient

Time of origin

  • 2011

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