This review article emphasizes the importance of using the idea of material culture as a tool for writing global histories of the maritime world. Taking the Indian Ocean as a case study, the article contends that the multiple, diverse avenues of communication reaching across its waters profoundly affected religions, cultures, and languages by way of texts and music, and through various types of imaginings like myths and invocations of sacred landscapes and seascapes. Investigations into these ideas and things not only direct our attention away from trade histories in the seas, they also counteract the maritime blindness that prevails in the academy, because the histories that result from these investigations are much more nuanced in their understanding of space/place. Material culture, through flows that are considered to be pluricultural in nature, can therefore provide a useful lens for studying the relationship between the local and the global.

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遨游知识海洋

这篇评论文章强调了使用物质文化理念作为书写全球海洋历史的工具的重要性。文章以印度洋为案例研究，认为跨越其水域的多种、多样化的交流途径通过文本和音乐，以及通过神话和祈求等各种类型的想象，深刻地影响了宗教、文化和语言。神圣的风景和海景。对这些想法和事物的调查不仅将我们的注意力从海洋贸易历史上转移开，而且还抵消了学术界普遍存在的海洋盲目性，因为这些调查产生的历史在对空间/地点的理解上更加细致入微。物质文化，