ANT 295 - The Indian Ocean World

(3) GS

Survey of peoples of the Indian Ocean basin, spanning east Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, South Asia, and Southeast Asia. Consideration of the Indian Ocean world as one transregional society, as well as specific societies in the region. Topics include: the political economy of coastal and inland regions, gender and kinship, mobility, cosmopolitanisms, religion, Islam, trade languages and transregional linguistic practices, and colonial and post-colonial transformations. Graded ABCDE.