Annotating Oceans- The Sea is Anthropology For a forthcoming piece in the Annual Review of Anthropology, the Ocean’s Lab will compile a bibliography tracing the “oceanic turn” in the humanities, emphasizing mobility and oceanic metaphors as themes of modernity.

Selected Key Sources:

Abu-Lughod, J. 1991. Before European Hegemony: The World System AD 1250–1350. Oxford:

Oxford University Press.

Acheson, J.M. 1981. Anthropology of Fishing. Annual Review of Anthropology, 10: 275-316.

Ben-Yehoyada, N. 2017. The Mediterranean Incarnate: Transnational Region Formation between Sicily and Tunisia since World War II. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Blum, H. 2010. The prospect of oceanic studies. PMLA, 125(3): 670-77.

Braudel, F. 1972. The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II. New York: HarperCollins.

Campling, L., & Colás, A. 2021. Capitalism and the sea: the maritime factor in the making of the modern world.

Verso Books.

Chalfin, B. 2010. Recasting maritime governance in Ghana: the neo-developmental state and the Port of Tema. Journal of Modern African Studies, 48(4): 573–98.

Dawdy, S. & and Bonni, J. 2012. Towards a General Theory of Piracy. Anthropological Quarterly, 85 (3): 673–699.

Dent, A. Piracy, circulatory legitimacy, and neoliberal subjectivity in Brazil. Cultural. Anthropology, 27(1): 28–49

Dua, J. 2019. Captured at Sea: Piracy and Protection in the Indian Ocean. Oakland: University of California Press.

Gaynor, J.L. 2016. Intertidal History in Island Southeast Asia: Submerged Genealogy and the Legacy of Coastal Capture. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.

Gilroy, P. 1993. The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness. London: Verso.

Hartman, S. 2008. Lose your mother: A journey along the Atlantic slave route. Macmillan.

Helmreich, S. 2009. Alien Ocean: Anthropological Voyages in Microbial Seas. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Helmreich, S. 2011. Nature/Culture/Seawater. American Anthropologist, 113(1): 132-144

Hau’ofa, E. 2008. We are the Ocean: Selected Works. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.

Ho, E. 2006. The Graves of Tarim: Genealogy and Mobility across the Indian Ocean. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Ho, E. 2004. Empire through diasporic eyes: A view from the other boat. Comparative Studies of Society and History, 46 (2): 210–46.

Kahn, J. 2019. Islands of Sovereignty: Haitian Migration and the Borders of Empire. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Khalili, L. 2021. Sinews of war and trade: Shipping and capitalism in the Arabian Peninsula. Verso Books.

Levinson, M. 2016. The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Lowe, L. 2015. The Intimacies of Four Continents. Durham: Duke University Press.

Mannov, A. 2015. Economies of Security: An Ethnography of Merchant Seafarers, Global Itineraries and Maritime Piracy. Unpublished PhD thesis, University of Copenhagen.

Maurer, B. 1997. Recharting the Caribbean: Land, Law, and Citizenship in the British Virgin Islands. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

McCormack, F. 2017. Private Oceans. The Enclosures and Marketisation of the Seas. London: Pluto Press.

Moore, A. 2012. The aquatic invaders: Marine management figuring fishermen, fisheries, and lionfish in the Bahamas. Cultural Anthropology, 27 (4): 667–88.

Pálsson, G. 1994. Enskilment at sea. Man, n.s., 29 (4): 901–27.

Roszko, E. 2021. Fishers, Monks and Cadres: Navigating State, Religion and the South China Sea in Central Vietnam. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.

Schober, E., & Leivestad, H. H. 2022. Past the canal: An anthropology of maritime passages. History and Anthropology, 1-5.

Subramanian, A. 2009. Shorelines: Space and Rights in South India. Stanford: Stanford University Press.

Todd, Z. 2016. Refracting the State Through Human-Fish Relations: Fishing, Indigenous Legal Orders and Colonialism in North/Western Canada. DIES: Decolonization, Indigeneity, Education, and Society, 7(1): 60-75.