Where Facts and History Meet Myth and Legend: Groups or Communities in the Marvels of India Stories Model

2020 ◽  
Vol 76 (3) ◽  
pp. 392-410 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dionisius A. Agius
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Occupational Group ◽  
Literary Genre ◽  
Additional Resource ◽  
Historical Texts ◽  
Indian Ocean Trade ◽  
The Indian Ocean ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

The cAja-’ib al-Hind ( Marvels of India) is a collection of sea stories allegedly compiled by Captain Buzurg Ibn Shahriya-r (d. 399/1009) which belongs to an Arabo-Islamic literary genre called the caja-’ib, containing themes of entertainment—things that are marvellous and strange. But these stories are not merely entertaining, they are an additional resource for the modern researcher because they also reflect the realities of daily life in seafaring communities of the Indian Ocean in the ninth and tenth centuries. Among the tales of the fantastic and the marvel, we find the simple humanity of the seafarers, something lacking in the purely factual, medieval, geographical and historical texts. A complementary model to the understanding of the maritime landscape of a group or community is proposed in this article. The stories model in this article demonstrates the relationship of an occupational group with other seafarers in a trans-regional Indian Ocean trade.

scholarly journals Hubungan Panjang dan Bobot Ikan Bigeye Tuna (Thunnus obesus Lowe, 1839) Di Perairan Samudera Hindia

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-55
Author(s):  
Grin Tommy Panggabean ◽  
Siti Nurkhotini ◽  
Yonvitner Yonvitner
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Bigeye Tuna ◽  
Fisheries Resources ◽  
Central Java ◽  
Thunnus Obesus ◽  
The Indian Ocean ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Fisheries Biology

The potential of fisheries resources in Indonesia is 9,931 million tons per year, with the highest potential being in WPP 718 of 1,992 million tons / year (20%), in WPP of 1,228 million / year (12%) and in WPP 711 of 1,143 million tons / year (12%). Bigeye Tuna (Thunnus obesus) is one of the leading commodities from the fisheries sub-sector which is commonly consumed both locally and export. Cilacap Ocean Fishery Port (PPS), Cilacap Regency, is one of the Bigeye Tuna (Thunnus obesus) fish landings caught from the Indian Ocean. This study aims to find out information on the long-term weight ties of Bigeye Tuna (Thunnus obesus) captured from the Indian Ocean and landed at PPS Cilacap, Central Java. According to Cilacap PPS (2014), Bigeye Tuna (Thunnus obesus) fish is one of the large pelagic fish species with the most catches after skipjack fish from all landed fish. The results of the analysis of the relationship between weight weights show that the growth pattern of big eye tuna (Thunnus obesus) is allometric negative (b <3). In fisheries biology, this long-weight relationship of fish is one of the information that needs to be known in terms of fisheries resource management.

Kinship as Politics

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Danna Agmon
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
French Empire ◽  
Family Networks ◽  
Commercial Networks ◽  
The Indian Ocean ◽  
Kinship Ties ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter considers the role of family networks, both French and Tamil, in the development of French empire in India. It charts how two Tamil dynasties drew on their kinship ties to create commercial networks that spanned the Indian Ocean, and highlights the involvement of of one local woman in the relationship between French colonists and local familial institutions.

Indonesia and the Arab World, Then and Now

2021 ◽  
pp. 26-55
Author(s):  
Mirjam Lücking
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Arab World ◽  
Seventh Century ◽  
Religious Leaders ◽  
Historical Overview ◽  
Islamic Culture ◽  
The Indian Ocean ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter provides a historical overview of ambivalent encounters between Indonesia and the Arab world through findings that show the relationship between Indonesia and the Middle East. It recounts the Indonesians' earliest encounters with Arab traders in the seventh century, from confrontations with Indo Persian Sufi up to the current democratization process that have been marked by contradictory dynamics. It also explains how Arabs have been acknowledged as teachers of Islam and allies in the postcolonial nonbloc movement. The chapter describes the gloomy counterimage of the Arab world against which Indonesian officials and religious leaders drew the picture of a tolerant, pluralist Indonesian Islam. It mentions the key role of the mobility across the Indian Ocean in the formation of Islamic culture in Indonesia.

‘Even If You Don’t Want to Drink, You Still Have to Drink’

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph Lawson
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Historical Narratives ◽  
Historical Texts ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Invented Tradition ◽  
History Of ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter considers the history of alcohol in Nuosu Yi society in relation to the formal codification of a Yi heritage of alcohol-related culture, and the question of alcohol in Yi health. The relationship of newly invented tradition to older practice and thought is often obscure in studies that lack historical perspective. Examining the historical narratives associated with the exposition of a Yi heritage of alcohol, this study reveals that those narratives are woven from a tapestry of threads with histories of their own, and they therefore shape present-day heritage work. After a brief overview of ideas about alcohol in contemporary discourses on Yi heritage, the chapter then analyses historical texts to argue that many of these ideas are remarkably similar to ones that emerged in the context of nineteenth and early twentieth century contact between Yi and Han communities.

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