《珍珠、人与权力》是第一本研究五个多世纪以来全球印度洋珍珠和珍珠母贸易、分销、生产和消费的书。虽然学者们早就认识到珍珠对沿海和内陆地区的社会、文化和经济实践的重要性，但绝大多数人都将自己局限于对珍珠贸易的高度本地化或至多是区域性研究。相比之下，这本书强调珍珠养殖和珍珠壳的交换是如何相互关联的过程，使港口、岛屿和海岸彼此紧密联系，创造出密集的连接网络，而不一定受地方、区域或国家框架的限制。
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Pearls, People, and Power: Pearling and Indian Ocean Worlds
Pearls, People, and Power is the first book to examine the trade, distribution, production, and consumption of pearls and mother-of-pearl in the global Indian Ocean over more than five centuries. While scholars have long recognized the importance of pearling to the social, cultural, and economic practices of both coastal and inland areas, the overwhelming majority have confined themselves to highly localized or at best regional studies of the pearl trade. By contrast, this book stresses how pearling and the exchange in pearl shell were interconnected processes that brought the ports, islands, and coasts into close relation with one another, creating dense networks of connectivity that were not necessarily circumscribed by local, regional, or indeed national frames.
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