Travelling pasts: the politics of cultural heritage in the Indian ocean world/ edited by Burkhard Schnepel and Tansen Sen.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Travelling pasts : an introduction / Burkhard Schnepel -- Global linkages, connectivity and the Indian Ocean in the UNESCO World Heritage arena / Christoph Brumann -- 'Project Mausam' : India's transnational initiative : revisiting UNESCO's World Heritage convention / Himanshu Prabha Ray -- The history of the Hajj as heritage : asset or burden to the Saudi state? / Ulrike Freitag -- Materiality and mobility : comparative notes on heritagization in the Indian Ocean world / Katja Muller and Boris Wille -- Ambiguous pasts : the Indian Ocean world in Cape Town's public history / Nigel Worden -- Temple heritage of a Chinese migrant community : movement connectivity, and identity in the maritime world / Tansen Sen -- The uses of 'Chinese heritage' : foreign policy of the People's Republic of China in the contemporary Indo-Pacific world / Geoffrey Wade -- Heritage food : the materialization of connectivity in Nyonya cooking / Mareike Pampus -- Contradictions in the heritagization of Zanzibar 'Stone Town' / Abdul Sheriff -- The production of identities on the Island of Mayotte : a historical perspective / Iain Walker.