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Global Currents and the Transformation of Space in Indian Ocean Africa 全球洋流与印度洋-非洲的空间转变

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Comparative Studies of South Asia Africa and the Middle East Pub Date : 2023-08-01 DOI: 10.1215/1089201x-10615622

Jeremy Prestholdt

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On Ottoman, British, and Belgian Monarchs' Ownership of Private Property in the Late Nineteenth Century: A Comparison 19世纪末奥斯曼帝国、英国和比利时君主私有财产所有权之比较

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Comparative Studies of South Asia Africa and the Middle East Pub Date : 2023-08-01 DOI: 10.1215/1089201x-10615674

Naz Yücel

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Editors' Note 编者注

Comparative Studies of South Asia Africa and the Middle East Pub Date : 2023-08-01 DOI: 10.1215/1089201x-10615596

{"title":"Editors' Note","authors":"","doi":"10.1215/1089201x-10615596","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201x-10615596","url":null,"abstract":"Editorial| August 01 2023 Editors' Note Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2023) 43 (2): 137. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-10615596 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Editors' Note. Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 1 August 2023; 43 (2): 137. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-10615596 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search Books & JournalsAll JournalsComparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East Search Advanced Search Studies focused on Indian Ocean world have consistently argued for rethinking the relationship between mobilities and borders, peoples and communities, and periodizations and temporalities. In this issue, we carry a special section that pushes even further in helping us consider the ways in which media and mediality shape life in both liminal geographies and oceanic flows. “Thinking with the Indian Ocean,” edited by Rogaia Abusharaf, Uday Chandra, and Irene Promodh, offers layered and nuanced histories of the Indian Ocean that range from the early modern to the contemporary period across East Africa, South Asia, and West Asia. Jeremy Prestholdt looks at the circulation emanating from the East African rim outward carrying peoples and goods with a key agentive role played by those communities that had long traversed these channels. Mahmood Kooria focuses on changes made to structures of kinship and inheritance in Southeast Asian Muslim communities by itinerant men and... Issue Section: Editors' Note You do not currently have access to this content.","PeriodicalId":51756,"journal":{"name":"Comparative Studies of South Asia Africa and the Middle East","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136135783","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}

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When Men Get No Share: Matrilineal Muslims and Their Laws of Succession 当男人得不到分享:母系穆斯林和他们的继承法

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Comparative Studies of South Asia Africa and the Middle East Pub Date : 2023-08-01 DOI: 10.1215/1089201x-10615635

Mahmood Kooria

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Amphibious Media Histories: Dhow Infrastructures and Narratives in Indian Ocean Film and Media 两栖媒体史：印度洋电影和媒体中的Dhow基础结构和叙事

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Comparative Studies of South Asia Africa and the Middle East Pub Date : 2023-08-01 DOI: 10.1215/1089201x-10615648

Bindu Menon Mannil

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Introduction 介绍

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Comparative Studies of South Asia Africa and the Middle East Pub Date : 2023-08-01 DOI: 10.1215/1089201x-10615609

R. Abusharaf, Uday Chandra, I. Promodh

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"The Agriculture Ministry of the Whole World": The International Institute of Agriculture and the Politics of Ottoman Statistics Collection “整个世界的农业部”:国际农业研究所和奥斯曼统计收集的政治

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Comparative Studies of South Asia Africa and the Middle East Pub Date : 2023-08-01 DOI: 10.1215/1089201x-10603157

E. Williams

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Corpse Politics and the Traveling Bones of Jamaluddin al-Afghani 尸体政治和贾马鲁丁·阿富汗尼的旅行遗骨

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Comparative Studies of South Asia Africa and the Middle East Pub Date : 2023-08-01 DOI: 10.1215/1089201x-10615661

Kelsey J. Utne

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Temple Architecture and Modern Hindu Appropriations of Buddhism 寺庙建筑与现代印度教对佛教的借鉴

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Comparative Studies of South Asia Africa and the Middle East Pub Date : 2023-05-01 DOI: 10.1215/1089201x-10375344

Douglas Ober, P. Maitland

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Cultural Decolonization 文化非殖民化

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Comparative Studies of South Asia Africa and the Middle East Pub Date : 2023-05-01 DOI: 10.1215/1089201x-10375370

Ahmad Agbaria

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