Sea Nomads of Southeast Asia

BÉrÉnice Bellina is an anthropological archaeologist implementing anthropology of techniques to study cultural exchanges, and in particular in relation to trade in the eastern part of the Indian Ocean.Roger Blench is a linguist, anthropologist and ethnomusicologist with archaeological interests, who has a particular interest in cross-disciplinary methodologies and conducts fieldwork in Sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia.Jean-Christophe Galipaud is an archaeologist specialising in Pacific islands archaeology and maritime archaeology. His main focus has been on islands initial discovery in remote Oceania and islands southeast Asia.

• List of Illustrations Acknowledgments1. Sea Nomadism from the Past to the Present2. Communities of Practice in a Maritime World: Shared Shell Technology and Obsidian Exchange in the Lesser Sunda Islands, Wallacea3. Late Pleistocene to Mid-Holocene Maritime Exchange Networks in Island Southeast Asia4. Southeast Asian Early Maritime Silk Road Trading Polities' Hinterland and the Sea-nomads of the Isthmus of Kra5. The Orang Suku Laut: Movement, Maps and Mapping6. The Linguistic Background to Southeast Asian Sea Nomadism7. A Genomic Perspective of the Origin and Dispersal of the Bajaw Sea Nomads in Indonesia8. Ship Construction and Navigation in the early South China Seas9. "The Muscles and Sinews of the Kingdom": The Sama Bajo in Early Modern Eastern Indonesia10. Nomads in the Interstices of History11. Ethno-archaeological Evidence of "Resilience" Underlying the Subsistence Strategy of the Maritime-adapted Inhabitants of the Andaman Sea12. Sea People, Coastal Territories and Cultural Interactions? Tetun Terik and Bunak in theSuai District on the South Coast of Timor-Leste13. The Bajau Diaspora: Origin and Transformation14. Maritime Diaspora and Creolisation: a Genealogy of the Sama-Bajaw in Insular Southeast AsiaList of Contributors Index

“For a long time, archaeologists believed that the sea nomads left no material evidence to history, but this joint publication by Galipaud, Bellina-Pryce and Blench is a first attempt to refute the claim. . . Contributors to the book track down sea nomads through archaeology and historical sources, and uncover their  contribution in regional socio-political landscapes, past and present.”