2 Open Space and Flexible Borders: Theorizing Maritime Space through Premodern Sino-Islamic Connections

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 5
3. Acknowledgments 9
4. The Maritime Silk Road: An Introduction 11
5. Global Connectivities
6. 1 Spaces, Places and Things: The Spatial Dimension of Early Indian Ocean Exchange 25
7. 2 Open Space and Flexible Borders: Theorizing Maritime Space through Premodern Sino-Islamic Connections 45
8. 3 From Regional to Global: Early Glass and the Development of the Maritime Silk Road 71
9. Regional Nodes
10. 4 Archaeological Evidence of Shipping and Shipbuilding Along The Maritime Silk Road 97
11. 5 Networks and Cultural Mapping of South Asian Maritime Trade 129
12. 6 Southern Africa and the Indian Ocean World: Relocating Agency from the “Center” to the “Periphery” and from the Maritime Silk Road to the Maritime Ivory Route 149
13. Localities
14. 7 Chinese Ceramics on the Maritime Silk Road: The Importance of Context 177
15. 8 Urban Demographics along the Asian Maritime Silk Road: Archaeological Small Finds and Settlement Patterns at Premodern Port-Settlements of the Malay Region 215
16. 9 Indian Ocean Trade through Buddhist Iconographies 243
17. Contributors 267
18. Index 271