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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Pre-Recorded Video Presentation Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The study of contemporary dhow and related watercraft construction in Zanzibar has relevance for the nautical archaeology of the Indian Ocean World. We suggest that such studies should be placed within the theoretical framework of “nautical ethnographies”, in which the social relations and processes...
Zanzibar Before the Transnational Storm: Considerations of the Uneven Stops and Starts of the Colonial Project (2018)
Much recent scholarship has addressed the uneven nature of the colonial project. Metropoles are no longer theorized as monolithic fonts of culture or centers of political power. Likewise, the dynamism and influence of peripheries are topics enjoying intense archaeological investigation. This paper builds on such scholarship by exploring the fits and starts as well as the failures associated with early colonialism. In so doing it provides a stark contrast between the tenuousness of early...