Early Exchange Between Africa and the Wider Indian Ocean World, edited by Gwyn Campbell

Mahmood Kooria

doi:10.1163/22134379-17302011

Abstract

Early Exchange Between Africa and the Wider Indian Ocean World, edited by Gwyn Campbell

Highlights

In the volume, Southeast Asia gets considerable attention as a major area of focus in Africa’s Indian Ocean networks, and this is unprecedented
Gwyn Campbell outlines the environmental context that determined the African involvement in the ‘global economy’ of the Indian Ocean world
Hodgson argues along this line in his chapter (Chapter 10) titled ‘A Genomic Investigation of the Malagasy Confirms the Highland-Coastal Divide, and the Lack of Middle Eastern Gene Flow’. He argues that the people of the island nation lack Middle Eastern or European genomic contributions and there is a ‘predominance of Southeast Asian ancestry in the highlands and African ancestry on the coasts’ (p. 249) and ‘the Islamic contribution to Madagascar and the Malagasy was entirely cultural’ (p. 248)

Summary

Introduction

Southeast Asia gets considerable attention as a major area of focus in Africa’s Indian Ocean networks, and this is unprecedented. Gwyn Campbell outlines the environmental context that determined the African involvement in the ‘global economy’ of the Indian Ocean world.

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Conclusion