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Title Sea nomads of Southeast Asia : from the past to the present / edited by Bérénice Bellina, Roger Blench and Jean-Christophe Galipaud
Published Singapore : NUS Press, [2021]
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Description 1 online resource (xv, 383 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents Half Title page -- This page was intentionally left blank -- Full Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents page -- List of Illustrations -- This page was intentionally left blank -- Acknowledgements -- This page was intentionally left blank -- 1 -- Sea Nomadism from the Past to the Present -- 2 -- Communities of Practice in a Maritime Worlds: Shared Shell Technology and Obsidian Exchange in the Lesser Sunda Islands, Wallacea -- 3 -- Late Pleistocene to Mid-Holocene Maritime Exchange Networks in Island Southeast Asia
4 -- Southeast Asian Early Maritime Silk Road Trading Politie's Hinterland and the Sea Nomads of hte Isthmus of Kra -- 5 -- The Orang Suku Laut: Movement, Maps and Mapping -- 6 -- The Linguistic Background to Southeast Asian Sea Nomadism -- 7 -- Genomic Perspective of the Origin and Dispersal of the Bajau Sea Nomads in Indonesia -- 8 -- Ship Construction and Navigation in the Early South China Seas -- 9 -- 'The Muscles and Sinews of the Kingdoms': The Sama Bajau in Early Modern Eastern Indonesia -- 10 -- Nomads in the Interstics of History
11 -- Ethno-archaeological Evidence of 'Resilience' Underlying the Subsistence Strategy of the Maritime-adapted Inhabitants of The Andman Sea -- 12 -- Sea People, Coastal Territories and Cultural Interactions: Tetun Terik and Bunaq i nthe Suai District on the South Coast of Timor-Leste -- 13 -- The Bajau Diaspora: Origin and Transformation -- 14 -- Maritime Diaspora and Creolisation: A Genealogy of the Sama Bajau in Insular Southeast Asia -- List of Contributors -- Index
Summary "Sea nomads have been part of the economic and political landscape of Southeast Asia for millennia. They have played many roles over the longue-durée: in certain periods proving central to the ability of land-based polities to generate wealth, by providing valuable maritime commodities, facilitating trade, forming a naval force to secure and protect vital sea lanes and providing crucial connectivity. They have existed in complex, codified relations with different sedentary populations, as pirates, guardians of the sea-lanes, merchants and explorers. Paradoxically, as modern states emerged, the sea nomads became progressively marginalized and impoverished.For many years, the sea nomads were assumed to be without history, and even without archaeology. This has proven far from the case, and recent archaeological findings allow us to more closely describe sea nomadism from the Pleistocene through the early Holocene up to the present. Integrating these findings with the latest in historical research, linguistics, ethnography and historical genetics allows us to better understand sea-nomad ways of life over a scale of millennia and to appreciate the diversity and flexibility of this sea-nomad world. This in turn enriches our understanding of nomadism and mobility as a way of life, and the sea not only as a landscape of resources, but as a home and spiritual landscape as well."-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Nomads -- Southeast Asia -- History
Bajau (Southeast Asian people) -- History
Seafaring life -- Southeast Asia -- History
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
Bajau (Southeast Asian people)
Commerce
Nomads
Seafaring life
SUBJECT Southeast Asia -- Commerce -- History
Subject Southeast Asia
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Bellina, Bérénice, editor.
Blench, R., editor.
Galipaud, Jean-Christophe, editor.
ISBN 9789813251656
9813251654