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The Graves of Tarim: Genealogy and Mobility across the Indian Ocean

The Graves of Tarim: Genealogy and Mobility across the Indian Ocean 358 Book Reviews / JESHO 52 (2009) 331-361 Engseng HO. Th e Graves of Tarim: Genealogy and Mobility across the Indian Ocean. Berkeley [etc.]: University of California Press, 2006. xxvi + 379 pp., ill., maps, paperback. ISBN-13: 978-0-520-24454-2, or 10: 0-520- 24454-0. Over the years, Engseng Ho has carved out a reputation for his studies of Hadhrami Arabs, whether in southern Arabia or across the Indian Ocean. Th is, the fi rst full-length study from his pen, is a dazzling technical perfor- mance, and his linguistic skills have proved invaluable in capturing the diasporic dynamic over an immense area, and during many centuries. Moreover, the author is informed by much recent theoretical literature in the fi eld. An impressive achievement by any standard, this book reminds the reader of the late Cliff ord Geertz, both in terms of its stylistic fl our- ishes, and in terms of harnessing history and anthropology to draw a single chariot. Th at said, the two do not always pull together as well as they might, perhaps falling foul of the Old Testament injunction always to har- ness like with like. As with Geertz, niggling doubts arise in the historian’s mind about baffl http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient Brill

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Brill
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© 2009 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0022-4995
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1568-5209
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10.1163/156852009X434454
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358 Book Reviews / JESHO 52 (2009) 331-361 Engseng HO. Th e Graves of Tarim: Genealogy and Mobility across the Indian Ocean. Berkeley [etc.]: University of California Press, 2006. xxvi + 379 pp., ill., maps, paperback. ISBN-13: 978-0-520-24454-2, or 10: 0-520- 24454-0. Over the years, Engseng Ho has carved out a reputation for his studies of Hadhrami Arabs, whether in southern Arabia or across the Indian Ocean. Th is, the fi rst full-length study from his pen, is a dazzling technical perfor- mance, and his linguistic skills have proved invaluable in capturing the diasporic dynamic over an immense area, and during many centuries. Moreover, the author is informed by much recent theoretical literature in the fi eld. An impressive achievement by any standard, this book reminds the reader of the late Cliff ord Geertz, both in terms of its stylistic fl our- ishes, and in terms of harnessing history and anthropology to draw a single chariot. Th at said, the two do not always pull together as well as they might, perhaps falling foul of the Old Testament injunction always to har- ness like with like. As with Geertz, niggling doubts arise in the historian’s mind about baffl

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Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient – Brill

Published: Jan 1, 2009

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