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Travelling Pasts, edited by Burkhard Schnepel and Tansen Sen, offers an innovative exploration of the issue of heritage in the Indian Ocean world. This collection of essays demonstrates how the heritagization of the past has played a vital role in processes and strategies related to the making of socio-cultural identities, the establishing of political legitimacies, and the pursuit of economic and geopolitical gains. The contributions range from those dealing with the impact of UNESCO's World Heritage Convention in the Indian Ocean world as a whole to those that address the politics of cultural heritage in various distinct maritime sites such as Zanzibar, Mayotte, Cape Town, the Maldives, Calcutta and Penang. Also examined are the Maritime Silk Road and the Project Mausam initiatives of the Chinese and Indian governments respectively. The volume is an important contribution to the transdisciplinary fields on Indian Ocean Studies.

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'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, Journal of the Indian Ocean RegionDOI: 10.1080/19480881.2020.1760603

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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).

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