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Srinivas, Smriti; Ng’weno, Bettina; Jeychandran, Neelima

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“…These gifts, sunken into real estate, are the transnational residues of nineteenth century maritime trade or the beneficence of coreligionists in Hong Kong today. 2 The research then began to be guided by the burgeoning scholarship within Indian Ocean studies and Inter-Asia as method (Ho, 2006;Duara, 2010;Machado, 2014;Srinivas, Ng'weno, and Jeychandran, 2020). Through a commitment to "thick transregionalism" (Ho, 2014), Indian Ocean studies trace the itineraries of tradesmen, capital, cultural and religious practices across geographies, with a deep commitment to historical processes within those geographies.…”

Section: Time and Ocean Worldsmentioning

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“…This paper follows in this tradition by reading the Parsi present through histories of migration and following transnational modes of giving through the trust across the monsoon winds, a system with its own temporality, risk and season. 3 I will look at the ways that giving traverses geographies to be invested in concrete forms, thus showing how giving through the trust becomes a transnational idiom of placemaking (Benton 2002; Braverman et al, 2014; Srinivas, Ng’weno, and Jeychandran 2020). The broader claim of my research on trusts, wherein a settlor endows assets for a particular purpose and assigns trustees to carry out that purpose for specified beneficiaries, is that they are mechanisms that not only bind the obligations of an individual to an entire set of beneficiaries, but intimately connect the past and the present (Vevaina, forthcoming).…”

Section: Time and Ocean Worldsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Through a commitment to “thick transregionalism” (Ho, 2014), Indian Ocean studies trace the itineraries of tradesmen, capital, cultural and religious practices across geographies, with a deep commitment to historical processes within those geographies. As Srinivas notes, while very attentive to local geographies, Indian Ocean studies should be seen as connected “with the project of decolonialization and the study of South Asian cities located within a dialogical encounter – temporal, spatial, intellectual – rather than within area studies” (Srinivas, Ng’weno, and Jeychandran, 2020, 4). The parallel and fascinating work on waqf across empires also provides much methodological as well as historical background for this research (Brown 2008; Beverley 2011; Kozlowski 1985; Moumtaz 2021).…”

Section: Time and Ocean Worldsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Trusts on the monsoon winds: Parsi transnational religious philanthropy

Vevaina

2022

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Trade brought the Parsis to Hong Kong and a small group remained and settled after the British took over the island in 1841. Profits from the China trade made millionaires of several of Bombay’s ‘illustrious’ philanthropists and helped to build some of this city’s founding infrastructure. The ties between the two colonial ports were never severed, and recent years have seen a resurgence of funds transferred from Parsi charitable trusts in Hong Kong back to Mumbai and other settlements in India. Unlike the profits from individuals, these funds are funneled through charitable trusts. This article will articulate a transregional Indian Ocean world that is formed not only through the movement of people and goods, but by community giving and city building, through the temporal giving of the trust. It will show how this historical and contemporary giving has become an idiom of transnational placemaking between these two port cities.

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Section: Time and Ocean Worldsmentioning

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Section: Time and Ocean Worldsmentioning

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Trusts on the monsoon winds: Parsi transnational religious philanthropy

Vevaina

2022

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“…1 In preparation of our new research project Swahili Ocean Worlds, we carried out some exploratory fieldwork in Kaole from November 2020 to March 2021, mostly interviews and some participant observation with fishers and other local residents. 2 In conceptualising Swahili ocean worlds, we draw on waterworlds (Hastrup and Hastrup 2015) and Indian ocean worlds (Srinivas et al 2020), to capture how the ocean features in the making and remaking of social worlds. While there is substantial scholarship on the Swahili world (Wynne-Jones and LaViolette 2018), anthropologists have argued that "the relationship of Swahili people to the sea has not been theorized explicitly" (Fleisher et al 2015: 110), thus our focus on Swahili ocean worlds, foregrounding the ocean as a theory machine (Helmreich 2011).…”

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Spiritual Relationality in Swahili Ocean Worlds

Uimonen,

Masimbi

2021

Kritisk Etnografi: Swedish Journal of Anthropology

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This article interrogates how people in Kaole relate to the ocean spiritually. Located on the Swahili coast in Tanzania, with a long history of transoceanic connections, Kaole is a fishing community where everyday life is lived alongside and through the ocean. Drawing on exploratory fieldwork in preparation of our new research project Swahili Ocean Worlds, in this article we share some of our initial findings, which we contextualise with the help of scholarly work on the Swahili world and Islam in Africa. To broaden our scope, we also engage with some comparative material from other parts of the world. In conceptualising Swahili ocean worlds, we draw on the anthropology of water, which has ascertained the centrality of water in the making of social worlds. But to grasp the spiritual relationality of the ocean, we adopt a pluriversal approach, with an emphasis on multiple worldings in an emergent world of many worlds. Our aim is to go beyond the focus on materiality and sociality in the anthropology of water, to interrogate the spirituality of the ocean in terms of spiritual beings as well as becomings.

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Global Currents and the Transformation of Space in Indian Ocean Africa

Prestholdt¹

2023

Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East

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The Indian Ocean region is a continuum of social, economic, and cultural engagements. It is also a remarkably elastic matrix of human relations that has profoundly influenced and been influenced by global engagements. These interregional engagements raise questions of how to frame global circularities within Indian Ocean pasts. How have imbrications with other world regions affected the networks and boundaries of the Indian Ocean region? And how have Indian Ocean societies affected the wider world? To answer these questions this article traces Indian Ocean histories within global contexts between the sixteenth and early twentieth centuries. It offers a stereoscopic history of Indian Ocean Africa that appreciates Indian Ocean linkages alongside the region's global entanglements, which in turn demonstrates how Africa's Indian Ocean rim has affected and been affected by wider global relationships. The article suggests that imbrications of regional and extraregional networks do not negate the Indian Ocean's coherence or the central importance of regional linkages. Rather, it argues that such imbrications prompt alternative ways of perceiving Indian Ocean worlds: namely, as layered matrices shaped by the dual articulation of Indian Ocean rim societies.

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Trusts on the monsoon winds: Parsi transnational religious philanthropy

Trusts on the monsoon winds: Parsi transnational religious philanthropy

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Global Currents and the Transformation of Space in Indian Ocean Africa

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