Sea Nomads of Southeast Asia From the Past to the Present

• Other Authors: Bellina, Bérénice (Contributor, Editor), Blench, R. (Contributor, Editor), Galipaud, Jean-Christophe (Contributor, Editor)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore National University of Singapore Press 2021
• Subjects: Nomads > History > Southeast Asia; Seafaring life > History > Southeast Asia; Bajau (Southeast Asian people) > History; Southeast Asia > Commerce > History
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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 providing valuable maritime commodities, facilitating...

Table of Contents:

• Sea nomadism from the past to the present / Bérénice Bellina, Roger Blench, and Jean-Christophe Galipaud
• Communities of practice in a maritime world, shared shell technology and obsidian exchange in the lesser Sunda Islands, Wallacea / Sue O'Connor [and four others]
• Late pleistocene to mid-holocene maritime exchange networks in Island Southeast Asia / David Bulbeck
• Southeast Asian early maritime silk road trading polities' Hinterland and the sea nomads of the Isthmus of Kra / Bérénice Bellina, Aude Favereau, Laure Dussubieux
• The Orang Suku Laut, movement, maps and mapping / Cynthia Chou
• The linguistic background to Southeast Asian sea nomadism / Roger Blench
• A genomic perspective of the origin and dispersal of the Bajau sea nomads in Indonesia / Pradiptajati Kusuma [and seven others]
• Ship construction and navigation in the early South China seas / Roger Blench
• "The muscles and sinews of the kingdom", the sama Bajau in early modern eastern Indonesia / Lance Nolde
• Nomads in the interstices of history / Jacques Ivanoff
• Ethno-archaeological evidence of "resilience" underlying the subsistence strategy of the maritime-adapted inhabitants of the Andaman sea / Ayesha Pamela Rogers and Richard Engelhardt
• Sea people, coastal territories and cultural interactions, Tetun Terik and Bunak in the Suai district on the south coast of Timor-Leste / Jean-Christophe Galipaud [and three others]
• The Bajau diaspora, origin and transformation / Charles Illouz and Chandra Nuraini
• Maritime diaspora and creolisation, a genealogy of the Sama Bajau in insular Southeast Asia / Nagatsu Kazufumi.