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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Prologue and Acknowledgements -- I. ROYAL AUTHORITY AND THE STATE -- 1. The King's Three Bodies: Royal Effigies in Southern Sudan, East India and Renaissance France -- 2. African Polities and the Pre-Modern Indian State -- II. KINGS, 'TRIBES' AND GODDESSES -- 3. Tutelary Deities: The Royal Patronage of Tribal Goddesses -- 4. The Hindu King's Authority Reconsidered: Durgā-Pūjā and Dasarā in a South Orissan Jungle Kingdom -- 5. Contact Zone: Ethnohistorical Notes on the Relationship between Kings and Tribes in Middle India -- III. OF SLEEPING AND DEAD KINGS -- 6. 'In Sleep a King . . .': The Politics of Dreaming in a Cross-Cultural Perspective -- 7. 'The First Kings must have been Dead Kings': A.M. Hocart on Kingship and Ritual -- List of First Publications -- Picture Credits.

This collection of essays deals with the rituals of kingship and royalty in India, Africa and Europe from the social anthropological and ethnohistorical points of view. It discusses the dialectical entanglements of rituals conducted for and by kings (including, little kings' and jungle kings') with the wider social, political, cultural, historical, religious and economic contexts in which they were embedded. Part I begins with a triangular comparison of kingship among the Shilluks of East Africa, the Gajapatis of eastern India and kings in Renaissance France. The essay entitled the King's Three Bodies' makes use of Ernst H. Kantorowicz's classical study, The King's Two Bodies in medieval political theology and extends it, not only in terms of the numbers of bodies that are found to be significant, but also theoretically. Another significant essay in this part looks at the unexpected but significant theoretical impact of social anthropological studies of acephalous, segmentary lineage societies in Africa on Indian historiography. The second part of this volume consists of three chapters dealing with the royal patronage of tribal and Hindu goddesses in Eastern India, while the third part presents studies on sleeping (and dreaming) kings and on the power of dead kings, a discussion of A.M. Hocart's dictum that the first kings must have been dead kings. Please note: Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.

ZusammenfassungIn diesem Beitrag werden die beiden zentralen Begriffe des Symposiums, agency und patiency (respektive passio), zunächst ideengeschichtlich sowie anhand ethnographischer und historischer Beispielen erläutert. Daraufhin wird argumentiert, dass es vor allem die hierarchisch geordnete Dialektik von agency und patiency ist, die in einer auf Standpunkte der Akteure fokussierten Analyse unweigerlich in den Mittelpunkt der Betrachtung rückt. Diese dialektische Beziehung aus emischer Sicht in die Analyse einzubeziehen, stellt, so die These des Artikels und des Symposiums als solches, eine wichtige Ergänzung und Korrektur zu den gängigen agency-versus-structure-Debatten dar.

Prologue / Julia Verne -- Cargoes in the Indian Ocean world : a thematic and methodological introduction / Burkhard Schnepel -- Brilliant cargoes : pearls, shell and the exchange of marine product in the Indian Ocean / Pedro Machado -- The history of southern Red Sea salt in Indian Ocean trade / Steven Serels -- The flow of bohea : tea trade in the Indian Ocean world from (eighteenth to nineteenth centuries) / Kunbing Xiao -- The journey of cloves : the journey of cloves : historical trajectories and new dynamics of organic labeling on Zanzibar / Rupert Neuhöfer and Hannah Pilgrim -- Giraffes and elephants : circulation of exotic animals in the longue durée history of the Indian Ocean world / Tansen Sen -- Cattle on the hoof : the Mozambique Channel provisioning trade in the nineteenth century / Ned Alpers -- Paper cargoes, mobile histories : a view from the twentieth-century dhow / Fahad Ahmad Bishara -- An enduring measure of twelve thousand cowries : the materialities and life histories of a well-travelled marine product / Eva-Maria Knoll -- Arab perfumes and the Indian Ocean trade in animal-derived aromatics : the case of civet / Hanne Schönig -- When gecko tails travel from island forests to laboratories : from materiality to information in scientific cargo / Lisa Jenny Krieg -- From cargo to "inalienable possessions" : beads and beadwork in Penang / Mareike Pampus -- The elephant with the seven tusks : maritime commodities in East Indonesian clan houses and marriage cycles / Karl-Heinz Kohl.

"Travelling Pasts, edited by Burkhard Schnepel and Tansen Sen, offers an innovative exploration of the issue of heritage in the Indian Ocean world. This collection of essays demonstrates how the heritagization of the past has played a vital role in processes and strategies related to the making of socio-cultural identities, the establishing of political legitimacies, and the pursuit of economic and geopolitical gains. The contributions range from those dealing with the impact of UNESCO's World Heritage Convention in the Indian Ocean world as a whole to those that address the politics of cultural heritage in various distinct maritime sites such as Zanzibar, Mayotte, Cape Town, the Maldives, Calcutta and Penang. Also examined are the Maritime Silk Road and the Project Mausam initiatives of the Chinese and Indian governments respectively. The volume is an important contribution to the fields of Indian Ocean Studies and Heritage Studies"--

This original collection brings islands to the fore in a growing body of scholarship on the Indian Ocean, examining them as hubs or points of convergence and divergence in a world of maritime movements and exchanges. Straddling history and anthropology and grounded in the framework of connectivity, the book tackles central themes such as smallness, translocality, and "the island factor." It moves to the farthest reaches of the region, with a rich variety of case studies on the Swahili-Comorian world, the Maldives, Indonesia, and more. With remarkable breadth and cohesion, these essays capture the circulations of people, goods, rituals, sociocultural practices, and ideas that constitute the Indian Ocean world. Together, they take up "islandness" as an explicit empirical and methodological issue as few have done before