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

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Výsledek na webu

<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

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

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

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

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

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

J_SC - Článek v periodiku v databázi SCOPUS

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

50404 - Anthropology, ethnology

Projekt

—

Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2017

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název periodika

Indonesia and the Malay World

ISSN

1363-9811

e-ISSN

—

Svazek periodika

45

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

133

Stát vydavatele periodika

GB - Spojené království Velké Británie a Severního Irska

Počet stran výsledku

18

Strana od-do

334-351

Kód UT WoS článku

000416048600005

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85029899855