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Connecting Continents: Archaeology And History In The Indian Ocean World, Krish Seetah
Connecting Continents: Archaeology And History In The Indian Ocean World, Krish Seetah
Ohio University Press Open Access Books
Winner, Society for American Archaeology Book Award
In recent decades, the vast and culturally diverse Indian Ocean region has increasingly attracted the attention of anthropologists, historians, political scientists, sociologists, and other researchers. Largely missing from this growing body of scholarship, however, are significant contributions by archaeologists and consciously interdisciplinary approaches to studying the region’s past and present.
Connecting Continents addresses two important issues: how best to promote collaborative research on the Indian Ocean world, and how to shape the research agenda for a region that has only recently begun to attract serious interest from historical archaeologists. The archaeologists, historians, and …