This book contains stone and bronze age monuments which were thoroughly studied by the author. All cultural objects and material art were obtained as a result of archaeological work through expeditions equipped with scientific excavation methods.
The Graves of Tarim narrates the movement of an old diaspora across the Indian Ocean over the past five hundred years. Taking readers from Arabia to India and Southeast Asia, Engseng Ho explores the transcultural exchanges- in kinship and writing-that enabled Hadrami Yemeni descendants of the Muslim prophet Muhammad to become locals in each of the three regions, yet remain cosmopolitans with vi…