The Graves of Tarim : Genealogy and Mobility across the Indian Ocean /

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Ranging from Arabia to India and Southeast Asia, this work explores the transcultural exchanges that enabled Hadrami Yemeni descendants of the Muslim prophet Muhammad to become locals in each of the three regions, yet remain cosmopolitans with vital connections across the ocean.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Ho, Engseng, 1961- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2006.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Emigration and immigration.
Antiquities.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
HISTORY > General.
Middle East.
History & Archaeology.
Regions & Countries > Asia & the Middle East.
Yemen (Republic) > Tarīm.
Yemen (Republic) > Ḥaḍramawt (Province)
Hadramaout (Yemen : Gouvernorat) > Émigration et immigration > Histoire.
Hadramaout (Yemen : Gouvernorat) > Histoire.
Tarīm (Yemen) > Antiquities.
Ḥaḍramawt (Yemen : Province) > Emigration and immigration > History.
Ḥaḍramawt (Yemen : Province) > History.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface: Hadrawi society, an old diaspora
  • I: BURIAL: The society of the absent
  • Geography, a pathway through history
  • A resolute localism
  • Conclusion to Part I: Making Tarim a place of return
  • II: GENEALOGICAL TRAVEL: Ecumenical Islam in an oceanic world
  • Hybrid texts: genealogy as light and as law
  • Creole kingship: genealogy as gift
  • Conclusion to Part II: Local cosmopolitans
  • III: RETURNS: Return as pilgrimage
  • Repatriation
  • The view from the verandah
  • Evictions
  • Concluding remarks: Names beyond nations.

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