Early Maritime Contacts Between South and Southeast Asia

Ray, Himanshu Prabha

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“…A sample of the hull was taken for 14C dating and yielded a 260 to 430 A.D. date after calibration o). Despite the fact that this dating was carried out long after the remains were exposed in 1926, the result accords with the 5) Christie 1990 on the identification of the incipient states of the Malay Peninsula; Glover 1989; Ray 1989Ray , 1990 6) Pomey 1981, McGrail & Kentley (eds.) 1985, Hornell 1946, Johnstone 1980, Greenhill 1976 7) The best overview on modern dhow type vessels of the Indian Ocean is that of Hawkins 1977 See also the numerous works by James Hornell.…”

Section: The Sewn-plank and Lashed-lug Vessels Of Insular South-east supporting

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Trading Ships of the South China Sea. Shipbuilding Techniques and Their Role in the History of the Development of Asian Trade Networks

Manguin¹

1993

Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient

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JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org.. BRILL is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient. ParisThe South China Sea is the first leg of the long distance trans-Asian trade route leading from China to the Mediterranean. It fed into this route the products of its own interregional exchange network. To its north, natural and manufactured products from the vast Chinese mainland were gathered in the harbours of the southeastern and southern provinces to be shipped, through various stages, to SouthEast Asia, the Indian Ocean countries, the Middle East and Europe. Further to its south and east, the wide variety of tropical and equatorial climes of South-East Asia produced an array of trade goods that were in high demand the world over. The peoples living around the South China Sea, another "Mediterranean" in its own right, were among the shippers and traders that kept this major trade route of the Old World in lively operation.The Chinese participation in the history of South China Sea shipping has been thoroughly investigated-and over-emphasized--for many years. However, the South China Sea, in its broadest geographical setting, also comprises the South-East Asian maritime for their critical comments. Indonesian shipwreck sites mentioned in this paper were excavated within a cooperation program between the Indonesian National Research Centre for Archaeology and the Ecole frangaise d'Extreme-Orient, with financial assistance of the Ford Foundation. This content downloaded from 195.78.108.20 on Tue, 17 Jun 2014 01:31:23 AM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions 254 PIERRE-YVES MANGUIN expanses to its South and East. Serious research on the maritime history of South-East Asia started only three decades ago, and it was only in the late sixties that the dynamic role played by the South-East Asian peoples in shaping these trade networks was fully acknowledged by historians. In his important book on Early Indonesian Commerce (1967), 0. W. Wolters was instrumental in shifting attention from activities directed from outside the region to early Malay World shippers and traders. I shall examine this general problem from a different angle and will attempt to answer a question which needs to be posed in clear terms: did polities around the South China Sea master the ocean-going techniques that would have allowed them to play the major economic role outlined above? Assuming the evolution of socio-economic patterns is intimately connected with technical developments, what will then be considered here is the historical evolution of shipbuilding techniques, that is the development among South-China Sea peoples of the technical skills necessary to build...

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Trading Ships of the South China Sea. Shipbuilding Techniques and Their Role in the History of the Development of Asian Trade Networks

Manguin¹

1993

Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient

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“…These texts de nitively describe Island Southeast Asia as a zone of cross-cultural interaction. As early as 2000 BP, these documents strongly suggest that there were communities in Island Southeast Asia that were regularly visited by traders from distant places (Ray 1989;Rockhill 1915). Archaeologically, there is also de nitive evidence of this interaction, including trade goods from mainland Asia and the subcontinent, and similarities in art and architectural styles, particularly with Hindu-Buddhist temple styles replicated in western Indonesia (Glover 1990).…”

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On the Use of Archaeology and History in Island Southeast Asia

Lape¹

2002

J Econ Soc Hist Orient

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This paper reviews the use of archaeological and documentary sources in the understanding of the past in Island Southeast Asia. The relationship between these two sources of data (and data sources that cross the boundaries of these categories) has varied over time, depending on the availability of data, changing interpretive strategies and scholarly trends and in uences. The wealth of documentary sources relevant to Island Southeast AsiaÕs past, and the increasing availability of detailed archaeological data have increased the potential to understand the past in this region from a variety of points of view. While this potential has not yet been fully realized, in part due to an unsophisticated use of these separate lines of evidence, recent scholarship has pushed the boundaries and revealed new information and insights into this history.Cet article passe en revue lÕutilisation de sources documentaires et arch ologiques dans la connaissance du pass des "les du Sud-Est asiatique. La relation entre ces deux sources dÕin-formation (et les sources qui d passent les limites de ces deux cat gories) a volu au l du temps en fonction de la disponibilit des donn es, des changements dans les strat gies dÕin-terpr tation et des tendances et in uences acad miques. La richesse des sources documentaires utiles dans lÕ tude du pass des "les du Sud-Est asiatique, et la disponibilit croissante de donn es arch ologiques d taill es ont permis, ˆ plusieurs niveaux, de faciliter la compr hension du pass de cette r gion. Bien que ce potentiel nÕait pas encore t compl tement exploit , en partie ˆ cause dÕune utilisation peu raf n e de ces distinctes cat gories de preuves, des tudes universitaires r centes ont repouss ces limites et ont d voil de nouveaux indices, permettant ainsi de mieux p n trer lÕhistoire des "les du Sud-Est asiatique.

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“…Although both countries have unique histories, the common experience of colonisation and the process of constituting themselves as modern and developed nation-states provide a shared template for understanding their contemporary (national) situations. Moreover, the precolonial history of the Philippines, then maritime Southeast Asia, indicates trade links with people from the South Asian subcontinent (Ray 1989). Like other languages of peoples in the Southeast Asian region, Philippine languages have Sanskrit root words (Pardo de Tavera 1887), which suggest historical affinities between South and Southeast Asia (Bin Yahya and Kaur 2011).…”

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Ethnic moralities and reciprocity: towards an ethic of South-South relations

Lorenzana

2015

Bandung: Journal of the Global South

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Normative critiques of South-South relations assess the extent to which solidarity and cooperation are achieved among partner countries. However, they tend to overlook the role of inter-ethnic tensions in partnerships and the ways global South actors exercise agency in achieving cooperation. Transnational skilled migration between global South countries is an emerging context where South-South cooperation takes place. Using the case of Filipino skilled workers in Indian cities, this paper aims to ascertain the sort of tensions that characterise South-South relations and the manner in which actors work out cooperative partnerships. The concept of boundary work, a process of defining 'us' and 'them' and relating to others through a set of socio-cultural criteria (ASR 73:37-59, 2008), is deployed to analyse Filipino-Indian interactions in the workplace. Ethnographic data reveal that while ethnic moralities constitute boundaries and tensions between Filipino and Indian workers, they also become bases of affinity. Cooperation is achieved when Filipino and Indian participants engage in personal and mutually beneficial arrangements such as guru-student and patron-client relations. An ethic of reciprocity thus animates South-South cooperation. I conclude with some implications for global South partnerships.

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Early Maritime Contacts Between South and Southeast Asia

Cited by 54 publications

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Trading Ships of the South China Sea. Shipbuilding Techniques and Their Role in the History of the Development of Asian Trade Networks

Trading Ships of the South China Sea. Shipbuilding Techniques and Their Role in the History of the Development of Asian Trade Networks

On the Use of Archaeology and History in Island Southeast Asia

Ethnic moralities and reciprocity: towards an ethic of South-South relations

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