Eng seng ho biography books

The Graves of Tarim narrates the movement of an old diaspora across the Indian Ocean over the past five hundred years.

The Graves of Tarim: Genealogy and Mobility across the Indian Ocean (Volume 3).

The Graves of Tarim: Genealogy and Mobility across the Indian Ocean (Volume 3).

The Graves of Tarim narrates the movement of an old diaspora across the Indian Ocean over the past five hundred years.

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The Graves of Tarim narrates the movement of an old diaspora across the Indian Ocean over the past five hundred years.

Engseng Ho is Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Duke University and author of The Graves of Tarim: Genealogy and Mobility across the Indian Ocean.

Ranging from Arabia to India and Southeast Asia, Engseng Ho explores the transcultural exchanges—in kinship and writing—that enabled Hadrami Yemeni descendants of the Muslim prophet Muhammad to become locals in each of the three regions yet remain cosmopolitans with vital connections across the ocean.

At home throughout the Indian Ocean, diasporic Hadramis engaged European empires in surprising ways across its breadth, beyond the usual territorial confines of colonizer and colonized. A work of both anthropology and history, this book brilliantly demonstrates how the emerging fields of world history and transcultural studies are coming together to provide groundbreaking ways of studying religion, diaspora, and empire.

Ho interprets biographies, family histories, chronicles, pilgrimage manuals and religious law as the unified literary output of