Uncovering the history of Africans in Asia.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Leiden Brill 2008Edition: ReprintDescription: XI, 196 p. illContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9004162917
  • 9789004162914
Subject(s):
Contents:
Identifying Africans in Asia : what's in a name? / Shihan de Silva Jayasuriya -- The Afro-Asian diaspora : myth or reality? / Gwyn Campbell -- The African slave trade to Asia and the Indian Ocean Islands / Robert O. Collins -- The Makran-Baluch-African network in Zanzibar and East-Africa during the XIX century / Beatrice Nicolini -- Somali migration to Yemen from the 19th to the 21st centuries / Leila Ingrams & Richard Panhurst -- Nineteenth century European references to the African diaspora in the Arabian peninsula / Clifford Pereira -- Migrant and the Maldives : African connections / Shihan de Silva Jayasuriya -- The African native in Indiaspora / Jeanette Pinto -- Migrants and mercenaries : Sri Lanka's hidden Africans / Shihan de Silva Jayasuriya.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
book Library of Ethnosociology & Ethnohistory 119.635 ASE Available 7452690-10

"The content of this book is a reprint of volume 5, issue 3-4 (2006) of African and Asian Studies."

Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-187) and index.

Identifying Africans in Asia : what's in a name? / Shihan de Silva Jayasuriya -- The Afro-Asian diaspora : myth or reality? / Gwyn Campbell -- The African slave trade to Asia and the Indian Ocean Islands / Robert O. Collins -- The Makran-Baluch-African network in Zanzibar and East-Africa during the XIX century / Beatrice Nicolini -- Somali migration to Yemen from the 19th to the 21st centuries / Leila Ingrams & Richard Panhurst -- Nineteenth century European references to the African diaspora in the Arabian peninsula / Clifford Pereira -- Migrant and the Maldives : African connections / Shihan de Silva Jayasuriya -- The African native in Indiaspora / Jeanette Pinto -- Migrants and mercenaries : Sri Lanka's hidden Africans / Shihan de Silva Jayasuriya.