Connectivity in Motion

Themes 1. "Connectivity in Motion": Island Hubs in the Indian Ocean World 2. Islands Connect: People, Things and Ideas among the Small Islands of the Western Indian Ocean 3. Small Island Hubs and Connectivity in the Indian Ocean World: Some Concepts and Hypotheses from Historical Anthropology 4. Displaced Passengers: States, Movements and Disappearances in the Indian Ocean Case StudiesSwahili Coast, Zanzibar and the Comoros 5. The Role of Kilwa in the Trade of the Western Indian Ocean 6. Zanzibar, the Indian Ocean and Nineteenth-Century Global Interface 7. Ali Mfaume: A Comorian Hub in the Western Indian Ocean 8. Multifaceted Identities, Multiple Dwellings: Connectivity and Flexible Household Configurations in Zanzibar Town Case Studies Mid-Ocean Archipelagos 9. A Hub of "Local Cosmopolitans": Migration and Settlement in Early Eighteenth- to Nineteenth-Century Port Louis 10. The Making of a Hub Society: Mauritius' Path from Port of Call to Cyber Island 11. Dis/Entangled Hubs: Connectivity and Disconnections in the Chagos Archipelago 12. Big Men Politics and Insularity in the Maldivian World of Islands 13. Considering the Island Capital Male' as a Hub for Health-Related Mobilities Case Studies South and Southeast Asia 14. From Salsette to Socotra: Islands across the Seas and Implications for Heritage 15. Serendipitous Connections: The Chinese Engagements with Sri Lanka 16. Changing Connectivity in a World of Small Islands: The Role of Makassar (Sulawesi) as a Hub Under Dutch Hegemony 17. Ambon, a Spicy Hub: Connectivity at the Fringe of the Indian Ocean

Burkhard Schnepel is Professor of Social Anthropology at the Martin Luther University in Halle, Germany, and a Fellow at the Max Planck Institute of Social Anthropology. Edward A. Alpers is Research Professor in the Department of History at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA