Brill Travelling Pasts: The Politics of Cultural Heritage in the Indian Ocean World: 1 (Crossroads - History of Interactions across the Silk Routes, 1)

In Travelling Pasts, edited by Burkhard Schnepel and Tansen Sen, the contributors investigate the politics of cultural heritage in the Indian Ocean world, placing special emphasis on the question of how people and historical imaginations have travelled and connected this maritime macro-region. Review "This collection throws 'light on the issue of "Travelling Pasts" across the Indian Ocean' (p. 16) by explaining how maritime activity involves considerable complexity, and in doing so contributes to 'inclusive understanding of maritime cultural heritage cuts across political boundaries' (p. 57). The book underscores how cultural heritage has and continues to be subject to political influence, and that it is still being used for political ends. It remains to be seen what the future holds for heritage governance in the Indian Ocean, with growing populations and mobility of peoples, and increasingly contested spaces and resources. This book will no doubt will be of considerable value to scholars and researchers working in history, heritage, politics, anthropology and many other areas of past and future Indian Ocean." - Erika Techera, UWA Law School and UWA Oceans Institute, The University of Western Australia, in: Journal of the Indian Ocean Region [DOI: 10.1080/19480881.2020.1760603] About the Author Burkhard Schnepel is Professor of Social Anthropology at the Institute for Social Anthropology of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg in Halle, Germany. One of his more recent books is Connectivity in Motion. Islands Hubs in the Indian Ocean World, co-edited with E.A. Alpers (2018). Tansen Sen is Professor of History and the Director of the Center for Global Asia at NYU Shanghai. His most recent book is entitled India, China, and the World: A Connected History (2017).