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Nautical Ethnographies of Dhow Construction in Zanzibar (2024)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Akshay Sarathi. Piotr Bojakowski. Katie C. Bojakowski.

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...