Animal Trade Histories in the Indian Ocean World

ISBN-13: 9783030425975 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 324 str.

Martha Chaiklin; Philip Gooding; Gwyn Campbell

Recenzje

"This volume is the first of a series of multi-themed studies on the Indian Ocean World (Iow) ... . a self-conscious 'entry into the tent of the Iow to positively expand our understanding of the relationships between animals, human beings, commerce, and world systems' ... . The wealth of detail supporting this interpretive stance-such as how animal products turned into items as disparate as 'hair ornaments, eye-glass frames, and dildos' ... will be enjoyable for readers to discover for themselves." (Myfel D. Paluga, Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, Vol. 178, 2022)

"The numbers of animals, commodities, places, and groups of (human) agents are impressive, the volume is nevertheless quite coherent ... . Animal Trade Histories in the Indian Ocean World not only greatly enhances our knowledge of the trade with and use of animals and animal commodities, but also highlights, by using this prism, the interconnectivity, shifting agency, and resilience of polities and trading communities across the IOW in an era of increasing European influence." (Samuël Coghe, Comparativ -Zeitschrift für Globalgeschichte und vergleichende Gesellschaftsforschung, Vol. 32 (3-4), 2022)

Spis treści

Table of Contents

 

Chapter 1: Introduction: Investigating Animals, their products, and their trades in the Indian Ocean World

                        Martha Chaiklin and Philip Gooding

 

Chapter 2: The Dutch East India Company and the transport of live exotic animals in the seventeenth and eighteenth century

                        Ria Winters

 

Chapter 3: Can the Oyster Speak? Pearling Empires and the Marine Environments of South India and Sri Lanka, c. 1600-1900

                        Samuel Ostroff

 

Chapter 4: Chank Fishing in South India under the East India Company, 1800-1840

                        Sundar Vadlamudi

 

Chapter 5: Horses and Power in the Southern Red Sea Region Since the Seventeenth Century

                        Steven Serels

 

Chapter 6: The donkey trade of the Indian Ocean World in the long nineteenth century

                        William Gervase Clarence-Smith

 

Chapter 7: Commercialisation of Cattle in Imperial Madagascar, 1795-1895

                        Gwyn Campbell

 

Chapter 8: Ayutthaya’s Seventeenth-Century Deerskin Trade in the Extended Eastern Indian Ocean and South China Sea

                        Ilicia J. Sprey and Kenneth R. Hall

 

Chapter 9: The Ivory Trade and Political Power in Nineteenth-Century East Africa

                        Philip Gooding

 

Chapter 10: The Flight of the Peacock, or how Peacocks became Japanese

Martha Chaiklin

 

Index

O autorze

Martha Chaiklin received her PhD from Leiden University, The Netherlands. She first became interested in animals when researching her book, Cultural Commerce and Dutch Commercial Culture (2003), and has since combined her interest in material culture and animals in publications on elephants, live animal gifts, tortoiseshell and ivory.

Philip Gooding is a postdoctoral fellow at the Indian Ocean World Centre, and a course lecturer in the Department of History and Classical Studies at McGill University, Canada. He has published articles in Slavery and Abolition and The Journal of African History, among other journals.

Gwyn Campbell is the founding Director of the Indian Ocean World Centre at McGill University, Canada. His publications include Africa and the Indian Ocean World from early times to circa 1900 (2019), David Griffiths and the Missionary “History of Madagascar” (2012), and An Economic History of Imperial Madagascar, 1750-1895 (2005).