{"title":"The Salt-Making Festival at Shiogama: a Research Note","authors":"Lothar von Falkenhausen","doi":"10.1163/22879811-bja10066","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/22879811-bja10066","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This is a brief report on a yearly festival at a Shintō shrine in northern Japan, during which salt is produced by a traditional technique: sea water is filtered through layers of salt-saturated kelp in order to increase its salinity. The procedure, which lasts three days, is being kept alive as communal memory and for educational purposes. The successive steps are described as witnessed by the author in 2003.</p>","PeriodicalId":41200,"journal":{"name":"Asian Review of World Histories","volume":"4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141872571","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Silver Ores and Deposits in the Southwest of Qing China and Adjoining Borderlands","authors":"Nanny Kim","doi":"10.1163/22879811-bja10072","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/22879811-bja10072","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This investigation of records on silver ores and worked deposits employs linguistic analysis and mineralogical information on known sites to explore types of deposits historically exploited in Yunnan and adjoining areas.</p>","PeriodicalId":41200,"journal":{"name":"Asian Review of World Histories","volume":"17 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141872572","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Some Insights into the Medical Situation on Board of Galleons Traveling across the Pacific Ocean in the Eighteenth Century","authors":"Angela Schottenhammer","doi":"10.1163/22879811-bja10073","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/22879811-bja10073","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Crossing the early modern Pacific Ocean presented many challenges. This chapter seeks to provide some insights into the food provisions, diseases, and medical supplies found on board galleons. I will also discuss some aspects of transcultural medical knowledge transfer and introduce some results of our ongoing <span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\">ERC</span> AdG project <span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\">transpacific</span>.</p>","PeriodicalId":41200,"journal":{"name":"Asian Review of World Histories","volume":"19 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141872573","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Piracy, Estuaries, and Commerce: Magh Predation in the Northern Bay of Bengal","authors":"Subham China","doi":"10.1163/22879811-bja10056","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/22879811-bja10056","url":null,"abstract":"As a postgraduate student at the Department of History, University of Hyderabad, India, I was introduced to Michael Pearson’s scholarship on the Indian Ocean and related studies thereon. While teaching the course “The World of the Indian Ocean,” Professor Rila Mukherjee emphasized Michael Pearson as one of the first to systematically conceptualize the interconnected maritime space of the Indian Ocean, and particularly, in her own work, the Bay of Bengal. Pearson’s many works shaped my research ideas and provided frameworks for my future research interests. In this paper, I will focus on the significant historiographical and conceptual interventions of Michael Pearson and how they shaped the development of my research on <jats:italic>magh</jats:italic> predation in the northern Bay of Bengal.","PeriodicalId":41200,"journal":{"name":"Asian Review of World Histories","volume":"1242 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-02-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139773412","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Religious Differences and Imperial Pragmatism in a Polemical Arena: A Privileged Law for Muslims, Hindus, and Jains in Diu (1557)","authors":"José Pedro Paiva","doi":"10.1163/22879811-bja10040","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/22879811-bja10040","url":null,"abstract":"In 1557 Francisco Barreto, the Portuguese governor of the State of India, issued a decree forbidding the destruction of temples and books belonging to the Gujarati Muslims, Hindus, and Jains of Diu and allowed them to practice their religion freely. This and other reforms introduced by the crown and the Goan archbishop created a special situation for Muslims and Hindus living in Diu, in contrast to the policies designed to establish monolithic confessionalism that the Portuguese authorities had been attempting to impose in most part of Asia since around 1540. This article aims to reconstruct and explain the specific nature of the religious policies pursued in Diu, adopting a holistic approach that compares them with developments in other areas of Portuguese Asia. It will be argued that the policies adopted made Diu a multiconfessional city, one that accommodated interreligious encounters though it was less supportive of mobility between different religions. This was the outcome of pragmatism, an essential feature of the actions of the different Portuguese agents who intervened at different levels, creating dynamics in which the role of the native population was also decisive in shaping imperial societies.","PeriodicalId":41200,"journal":{"name":"Asian Review of World Histories","volume":"4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-02-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139768456","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Locating the Littoral: Michael N. Pearson in the Study of the Northern Bay of Bengal","authors":"Shatarupa Bhattacharyya","doi":"10.1163/22879811-bja10055","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/22879811-bja10055","url":null,"abstract":"This article takes up Michael Pearson’s concept of littoral societies and discusses how it provides us with a lens to study a specific estuarine place, a mangrove forest called Sundarbans that is found along the coastlines of India and Bangladesh and opens onto the Bay of Bengal. Inhabitants cope with constant risks and hazards, maintaining distinctive folk traditions practiced by both the region’s Hindus and Muslims. This article discusses the outsider and insider perceptions of this place and its distinctive material culture, which may provide a window for studying other littoral cultures across the Indian Ocean basin.","PeriodicalId":41200,"journal":{"name":"Asian Review of World Histories","volume":"10 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-02-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139768355","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Domination, Resistance, and Trade: The Portuguese, Oman, and Kanara on the Indian Ocean","authors":"Nagendra Rao","doi":"10.1163/22879811-bja10041","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/22879811-bja10041","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Did the Portuguese always dominate the Asian powers in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries? Colonial historians used to be confident that the West consistently dominated the East, with that domination culminating in the conquest of Asia. This paper argues that the Europeans faced significant resistance from the eastern powers, with the three-way relationship of Portugal, Kanara, and Oman examined as a case in point. The countries’ dealings with each other date to the region’s Age of Partnership, when no single power could dominate the other. In the sixteenth century, the Portuguese obtained the upper hand over the East, particularly Kanara and Oman. But in the seventeenth century, the Portuguese lost their upper hand and the Asian powers staged a resurgence. The Omanis, indeed, imitated the Portuguese by establishing factories in India. This article draws on sources such as Filmotheca Ultramarina Portuguesa, Assentos Conselho do Estado, Cartas, Patentes e Alvaras, and Documentos Remittodos India.</p>","PeriodicalId":41200,"journal":{"name":"Asian Review of World Histories","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139910472","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Postcolonial Reading of Donald Sinderby’s The Jewel of Malabar: An Analysis of Colonial Engagement in Twentieth-Century Malabar","authors":"R. Hemachandran, Maya Vinai","doi":"10.1163/22879811-bja10028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/22879811-bja10028","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Several historical accounts of colonialists’ entanglements in Malabar have been recorded. Colonialist historiography aimed to popularize the achievements of Europeans stationed in the empire. The representation of European characters in The Jewel of Malabar, a novel published in 1927 by the English soldier and writer Donald Ryder Stephens under the pen name Donald Sinderby, accepts the colonizers’ righteous intent of introducing Western culture and religion and the scientific temperament into the colonies. The article argues that a power nexus existed between the colonizers and natives (perceived as elites by various social groups) and shows how the social transactions between the two led to an internalization and proliferation of the need of the white savior. A close analysis of The Jewel of Malabar examines the nature of social transactions between the colonizer and the colonized, and demonstrates the creation of a dependency that is perceived as a symbiotic arrangement, by which some natives are protected from others while giving the colonizers a firmer command of the colony’s resources. Furthermore, the article also explores how Western modernization was used to provide a righteous intent cloaking the colonizers’ motives (conquest and exploitation) while intensifying the existing binary within colonies, that of nondangerous natives needing protection from dangerous ones, with Hindus and Moplahs playing these roles.","PeriodicalId":41200,"journal":{"name":"Asian Review of World Histories","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47622160","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Belitung: The Afterlives of a Shipwreck, written by Natali Pearson","authors":"R. Parthesius","doi":"10.1163/22879811-12340128","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/22879811-12340128","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41200,"journal":{"name":"Asian Review of World Histories","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42249462","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Navigating a Sea of Knowledge","authors":"Rila Mukherjee","doi":"10.1163/22879811-bja10021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/22879811-bja10021","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000This review article emphasizes the importance of using the idea of material culture as a tool for writing global histories of the maritime world. Taking the Indian Ocean as a case study, the article contends that the multiple, diverse avenues of communication reaching across its waters profoundly affected religions, cultures, and languages by way of texts and music, and through various types of imaginings like myths and invocations of sacred landscapes and seascapes.\u0000Investigations into these ideas and things not only direct our attention away from trade histories in the seas, they also counteract the maritime blindness that prevails in the academy, because the histories that result from these investigations are much more nuanced in their understanding of space/place. Material culture, through flows that are considered to be pluricultural in nature, can therefore provide a useful lens for studying the relationship between the local and the global.","PeriodicalId":41200,"journal":{"name":"Asian Review of World Histories","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47550394","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}