Black Africans on the maritime silk route: Jəŋgi in Old Javanese epigraphical and literary evidence

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F61989592%3A15210%2F17%3A73585471" target="_blank" >RIV/61989592:15210/17:73585471 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13639811.2017.1344050" target="_blank" >http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13639811.2017.1344050</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13639811.2017.1344050" target="_blank" >10.1080/13639811.2017.1344050</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Black Africans on the maritime silk route: Jəŋgi in Old Javanese epigraphical and literary evidence

Original language description

This article takes a closer look at the history of black Africans in pre-Islamic Java. Though the presence of African slaves in Java before 1500 has for long been acknowledged by historians, hardly any research has been conducted on the subject. I use the epigraphical and literary evidence in Old Javanese as the major source, and contextualise it with much more comprehensive evidence on black Africans in Tang and Song China. Though it will not be possible to answer questions about African cultural practices, beliefs, or identity, given the extreme limitations of our sources, new knowledge can be gained about their interaction with the Javanese state and society. Like other maligned and marginal people, black Africans were invariably conceptualised as different others&apos; in both Java and China. Infrequent literary representations suggest that some of them were integrated into the servile system of Javanese courts, and the epigraphical record indicates that black African slaves were occasionally given by rulers to religious institutions, probably as meritorious deeds. They also served as part of the administrative body of royal tax collectors, enjoying a relative freedom of movement in rural Java, benefits unseen in Song China, a polity from where we have the most comprehensive evidence on black African diaspora in pre-modern Asia.

Czech name

—

Czech description

—

Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

—

OECD FORD branch

50404 - Anthropology, ethnology

Project

—

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Indonesia and the Malay World

ISSN

1363-9811

e-ISSN

—

Volume of the periodical

45

Issue of the periodical within the volume

133

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

18

Pages from-to

334-351

UT code for WoS article

000416048600005

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85029899855