Early Exchange between Africa and the Wider Indian Ocean World

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvi

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2. Africa and the Early Indian Ocean World Exchange System in the Context ofHuman–Environment Interaction

   • Gwyn Campbell

   Pages 1-24

3. Origins of Southeast Asian Shipping and Maritime Communication Across the Indian Ocean

   • Waruno Mahdi

   Pages 25-49

4. Austronesian Shipping in the Indian Ocean: From Outrigger Boats to Trading Ships

   • Pierre-Yves Manguin

   Pages 51-76

5. Austronesians in Madagascar: A Critical Assessment of the Works of Paul Ottino and Philippe Beaujard

   • Alexander Adelaar

   Pages 77-112

6. Early Greek and Latin Sources on the Indian Ocean and Eastern Africa

   • Ephraim Lytle

   Pages 113-134

7. A GIS Approach to Finding the Metropolis of Rhapta

   • Carl Hughes, Ruben Post

   Pages 135-155

8. Contact between East Africa and India in the First Millennium CE

   • Sunil Gupta

   Pages 157-171

9. Eastern Africa and the Indian Ocean World in the First Millennium CE: The Glass Bead Evidence

   • Marilee Wood

   Pages 173-193

10. Migration and Interaction between Madagascar and Eastern Africa, 500 BCE–1000 CE: An Archaeological Perspective

    • Anneli Ekblom, Paul Lane, Chantal Radimilahy, Jean-Aime Rakotoarisoa, Paul Sinclair, Malika Virah-Sawmy

    Pages 195-230

11. A Genomic Investigation of the Malagasy Confirms the Highland–Coastal Divide, and the Lack of Middle Eastern Gene Flow

    • Jason A. Hodgson

    Pages 231-254

12. Intercontinental Networks Between Africa and Asia Across the Indian Ocean: What Do Village Chickens Reveal?

    • J.M. Mwacharo

    Pages 255-274

13. East Africa in the Early Indian Ocean World Slave Trade: The Zanj Revolt Reconsidered

    • Gwyn Campbell

    Pages 275-303

14. Back Matter

    Pages 305-378

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This volume comprises a selection of essays by scholars from a variety of disciplines that discuss the exchange relationship between Africa and the wider Indian Ocean world (IOW), a macro-region running from East Africa to China, from early times to about 1300 CE. The rationale for regarding this macro-region as a “world” is the central significance of the monsoon system which facilitated the early emergence of long-distance trans-IOW maritime exchange of commodities, peoples, plants, animals, technologies and ideas.

• Global Economy of the Indian Ocean World
• human-environment interaction in the Indian Ocean
• exchange relations in African history
• monsoons and the economy
• maritime networks
• Origins of the Malagasy

• McGill University, Montreal, Canada

  Gwyn Campbell

Gwyn Campbell is a Canada Research Chair, and Director of the Indian Ocean World Centre, at McGill University, Canada. He has published widely on Indian Ocean world themes, including An Economic History of Imperial Madagascar, 1750-1895 (2005) and David Griffiths and the Missionary "History of Madagascar" (2012). He is currently completing a manuscript on Africa and the Indian Ocean world from early times to 1900. 

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