02576cam a22001934a 4500020001800000040000800018082002100026245011600047260003300163300003300196504005100229505180700280651004602087651005302133651006102186651004302247651004302290651004902333  a9780415803908  cCUS00a909.09824bMOO/I00aIndian Ocean studies: cultural, social, and political perspectives /cedited by Shanti Moorthy and Ashraf Jamal  aNew York:bRoutledge,c2010.  axvii, 435 p.:bill.;c24 cm.  aIncludes bibliographical references and index.0 aIntroduction: New conjunctures in maritime imaginaries / Shanti Moorthy and Ashraf Jamal  -- Fabulation : flying carpets and artful politics in the Indian Ocean / Stephen Muecke -- The Indian Ocean and the making of outback Australia : an ecocultural odyssey / Haripriya Rangan and Christian Kull -- Contesting history : have we ever been cosmopolitan? / Shanti Moorthy -- Destined to disappear without a trace : gender and the languages of creolisation in the Indian Ocean, Africa, Brazil, and the Caribbean / Fernando Rosa Ribeiro -- Commerce, circulation, and consumption : Indian Ocean communities in historical perspective / Lakshmi Subramanian -- Shared hopes, new worlds : Indians, Australians & Indonesians in the boycott of Dutch shipping, 1945-1949 / Heather Goodall -- "Signs of wonder" : the postmortem travels of Francis Xavier in the Indian Ocean world / Pamila Gupta -- Kuo Pao Kun's descendants of the eunuch admiral and the myth of modern Singapore / Susan Philip -- "The great ocean of idealism" : Calcutta, the Tagore circle, and the idea of Asia, 1900-1920 / Mark Ravinder Frost -- "Is it the same sea as back home"? : transformative complicities as traveling tropes in fictions from Sri Lanka, Mauritius, and South Africa / Miki Flockemann -- Making home on the Indian Ocean rim : re-locations in South African literatures / Meg Samuelson -- A traveling science : anthropometry and colonialism in the Indian Ocean / Rochelle Pinto -- Whiteness in golden Goa : Linschoten on phenotype / Arun Saldanha -- Power and beliefs in Reunion Island / Christian Ghasarian -- Through magical flowers : tourism and Creole self-fashioning in La Reunion / David Picard -- Black bag / Ashraf Jamal -- Telling and selling on the Indian Ocean rim / Ashraf Jamal -- Post-orientalism / Stephen Muecke. 0aIndian OceanxStudy and Teaching (Higher) 0aIndian Ocean RegionxStudy and Teaching (Higher) 0aIslands of the Indian OceanxStudy and Teaching (Higher) 0aIndian Ocean RegionxIntellectual Life 0aIndian Ocean RegionxSocial Conditions 0aIndian Ocean RegionxPolitics and Government