This article proposes to introduce the study of European identity into colonial history and
vice versa. It analyses the ways in which the legal classification of the population functioned …

To investigate the pathways of introduction of the African baobab, Adansonia digitata, to the
Indian subcontinent, we examined 10 microsatellite loci in individuals from Africa, India, the …

African Identity in Asia: Cultural Effects of Forced Migration Page 1 African Diaspora
Archaeology Newsletter Volume 12 Issue 3 September 2009 Article 14 9-1-2009 African …

Abstract Although the Indian Ocean has long been recognised as a fertile zone for cultural
exchange, reflecting both trade routes and colonisation, it is only now coming into …

The history of botanical exchanges between Africa and the Indian subcontinent reaches
back in time over 5,000 years. Recent advances in archaeobotany have revealed these …

This dissertation situates one of the most important spice islands in Indonesia—Ambon—at
the center of multi-scalar processes of information exchange. It traces how natural, medical …

For scholars concerned with historical studies of cross-continental movement, migration from
Africa to Asia poses challenges. Administrative records of the East India Company reveal the …

This essay argues that the long histories of human mobility and exchanges in the Indian
Ocean region challenge conventional ecological ideas of biodiversity. Biodiversity is a …

Although interest has begun to increase, studies of the Indian Ocean slave trade remain
scattered and weak compared with the massive volume of materials on the Atlantic trade …

This article is based on the results of a two-year research project on African migration to
Southeast Asia, namely Malaysia and Singapore, at the Institute of Ethnic Studies (KITA), the …