Explorations in the North-West Indian Ocean: The Research Journeys of the Palinurus along the Omani Coast in the mid-1800s

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Explorations in the North-West Indian Ocean: The Research Journeys of the Palinurus along the Omani Coast in the mid-1800s

présenté lors de

Research Expeditions to India and the Indian Ocean in Early Modern and Modern Times

Type

Conférence

Créateur

Risse, Marielle Voir tous les contenus avec cette valeur

Date

2022-11-03

Résumé

MARIELLE RISSE (Salalah) introduced us to Oman, a country in the Indian Ocean world that was never under foreign control. It is also the only country on the Arabic peninsula that gets monsoonal rains. Risse focused on the two expeditions of the brig Palinurus, which took place in the 1830s and 1850s and were the first explorations by English speakers to the southern coast of Oman, around Dhofar. The expeditions had the goal of investigating whether the Omani coast and hinterlands could be of use to the British government. They also wanted to buy the island Socotra from the Sultan in order to use it for steamship traffic between India and Britain. The surviving accounts of the expedition shed light on the local peoples; they spoke three different languages but left no written records. Risse was able to trace indigenous knowledge through oral history traditions, which were approximately 150 years old by the time they were written down in around 1850. These records reveal that much more water was available at the time, indicating that climate change is already significantly affecting Oman.

Place

Leibniz

Langue

eng

uri

https://www.hsozkult.de/conferencereport/id/fdkn-134649

Risse, Marielle, “Explorations in the North-West Indian Ocean: The Research Journeys of the Palinurus along the Omani Coast in the mid-1800s”, 2022-11-03, bibliographie, consulté le 19 septembre 2024, https://ibadica.org/s/bibliographie/item/21831