Date : 2021
Type : Livre / Book
Langue / Language : anglais / English
ISBN : 978-981-325-125-0
ISBN : 981-325-125-5
EAN : 9789813251250
Nomades -- Asie du Sud-Est -- Histoire
Vie en mer -- Asie du Sud-Est -- Histoire
Commerce maritime -- Asie du Sud-Est -- Histoire
Sama (peuple d'Asie du Sud-Est) -- Histoire
Classification Dewey : 305.9/069180959
Résumé / Abstract : "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 sourcing 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 ways of life more generally, and of the sea not only as a landscape of resources, but as a home and spiritual landscape as well."