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Title

Mausam : maritime cultural landscapes across the Indian ocean / edited by Himanshu Prabha Ray.

Publication

New Delhi : National Monuments Authority in association with Aryan Books International, 2014.

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Additional Authors

• Ray, Himanshu Prabha
• National Monuments Authority (India)

Description

xiii, 94 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color); 24 cm

Summary

Mausam' or Arabic 'Mawsim' refers to the season when ships could sail safely in the Indian Ocean and these seasonal monsoon winds underwrote both a shared culture in the past, as also the continued survival of maritime regions into the present. 'Maritime cultural landscape' was used by Olof Hasslof, the Swedish maritime ethnologist in the 1950s to indicate an understanding of the use of the sea by humans and included attendant coastal structures and cultural identifiers. The papers in this book examine the development of coastal settlements and architectural remains from the third millennium BCE Bronze Age to almost the present across a large part of the Indian Ocean extending from Arabia to Vietnam. A second objective of the book is to relate this understanding of the past with that of the present and to highlight the extent to which indicators of historical cultural networks provide building blocks for contemporary societies, as they work towards universal values and trans-border groupings-both of which underwrite UNESCO's 1972 World Heritage Convention. The Convention encourages the identification, protection and preservation of cultural and natural heritage around the world considered to be of outstanding value to humanity, thereby focusing on the universal, rather than the local or regional. The book will appeal to readers of maritime history, as well as those involved in heritage studies.

Subject

• Underwater archaeology > Indian Ocean Region
• Excavations (Archaeology) > Indian Ocean Region
• Coastal settlements > Indian Ocean Region
• Cultural landscapes > Indian Ocean Region
• Antiquities
• Coastal settlements
• Cultural landscapes
• Excavations (Archaeology)
• Underwater archaeology
• Indian Ocean Region > Antiquities
• Indian Ocean Region

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

1. Maritime Landscapes and Coastal Architecture : The Long Coastline of India / Himanshu Prabha Ray -- 2. Indian Contribution to the Archaeology of its Neighbours / Pravin Srivastava -- 3. The Archaeology of Kachchh in Gujarat : Defining Cultural Landscapes / Yaduvir Singh Rawat -- 4. Re -- Examining Fringes in Prehistory : Arabian Coastal Landscapes / Akshyeta Suryanarayan -- 5. The Coastal Temples of Vietnam : Sanctuaries of International Maritime Pilgrims on the Silk Road of the Sea / Tran Ky Phuong -- 6. Heritage Routes and Gaps in World Heritage / Shikha Jain and Somya Johri.

ISBN

• 9788173055249
• 8173055246
• 9788173055256
• 8173055254

LCCN

2014360406

OCLC

• ocn892787976
• 892787976
• SCSB-1827262

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library