Description: Bringing together specialists working in multiple areas of the Indian Ocean world, this volume uses a historical archaeological approach to explore the importance of the region to the emergence of modernity and globalization.
Brief description: Mark William Hauser, professor of anthropology at Northwestern University, is coeditor of Archaeology in Dominica: Everyday Ecologies and Economies at Morne Patate.
Review Quotes:
"A stimulating source of new ideas and data about the archaeology and history of the Indian Ocean world that deserves to be widely read and widely referenced."--Peter Mitchell, author of African Islands: A Comparative Archaeology
"Makes a significant contribution to the growing literature on the archaeology of the Indian Ocean and the ongoing theoretical, geographic, and intellectual expansion of the discipline of historical archaeology. The contributors present exciting new research and provide valuable insights on the global, complexly entangled processes that shaped modernity."--Carla M. Sinopoli, coeditor of Object Lessons and the Formation of Knowledge: The University of Michigan Museums, Libraries, and Collections 1817-2017