Disease Dispersion and Impact in the Indian Ocean World.

313 Pages·2020·4.888 MB·English

by  Gwyn Campbell, Eva-Maria Knoll

PALGRAVE SERIES IN
INDIAN OCEAN WORLD STUDIES
Disease Dispersion
and Impact in the
Indian Ocean World
Edited by
Gwyn Campbell
Eva-Maria Knoll
Palgrave Series in Indian Ocean World Studies
Series Editor
Gwyn Campbell
Indian Ocean World Centre
McGill University
Montreal, QC, Canada
This is the first scholarly series devoted to the study of the Indian Ocean
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Gwyn Campbell • Eva-Maria Knoll
Editors
Disease Dispersion
and Impact in the
Indian Ocean World
Editors
Gwyn Campbell Eva-Maria Knoll
Indian Ocean World Centre Institute for Social Anthropology
McGill University Austrian Academy of Sciences
Montreal, QC, Canada Vienna, Austria
Palgrave Series in Indian Ocean World Studies
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ontents
1 Introduction 1
Eva-Maria Knoll and Gwyn Campbell
2 The Evolution and Spread of Major Human Diseases in
the Indian Ocean World 25
Monica H. Green and Lori Jones
3 The ‘Frankish Disease’ and Its Treatments in the Indian
Ocean World 59
Anna Winterbottom
4 Reconsidering the Early History of Leprosy in Light of
Advances in Palaeopathology 85
Eric A. Strahorn
5 Climate, Weather and Pestilence in the Philippines Since
the Sixteenth Century 105
James Francis Warren
6 Malaria in Precolonial Malagasy History 129
Gwyn Campbell
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vi CONTENTS
7 Disease, Alcohol Consumption, and Excise
in Nineteenth-Century British India 169
Peter Hynd
8 European Sailors, Alcohol, and Cholera
in Nineteenth-Century India 191
Manikarnika Dutta
9 Chikungunya and Epidemic Disease in the Indian Ocean
World 211
Edward A. Alpers
10 Challenging Chikungunya: Resistance to Public Health
Measures and Aetiology During the 2005–2007
Epidemic in Réunion 237
Karine Aasgaard Jansen
11 Inherited Without History? Maldive Fever and Its
Aftermath 255
Eva-Maria Knoll
Index 285
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otes on ontributors
Edward A. Alpers is Research Professor of History at the University of
California, Los Angeles. He has also taught at the Universities of Dar es
Salaam, Tanzania (1966–1968) and the Somali National University,
Lafoole (1980). In 1994 he served as President of the African Studies
Association (USA). Alpers has published widely on the history of East
Africa and the Indian Ocean. His major books include Ivory and Slaves in
East Central Africa (1975), Africa and the West: A Documentary History
from the Slave Trade to Independence, with William H. Worger and Nancy
Clark (2001, 2nd ed. 2010), East Africa and the Indian Ocean (2009)
and The Indian Ocean in World History (2014). He has co-edited Walter
Rodney: Revolutionary and Scholar (1982), History, Memory and Identity
(2001), Sidis and Scholars: Essays on African Indians (2004), Slavery and
Resistance in Africa and Asia (2005), Slave Routes and Oral Tradition in
Southeastern Africa (2005), Resisting Bondage in Indian Ocean Africa
and Asia (2007), Cross-Currents and Community Networks: The History of
the Indian Ocean World (2007), Changing Horizons of African History
(2017), Connectivity in Motion: Island Hubs in the Indian Ocean World
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018) and Transregional Trade and Traders:
Situating Gujarat in the Indian Ocean from Early Times to 1900 (2019).
He is senior editor for the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Asian History
and Associate, editor of the Oxford Encyclopedia of Slavery, the Slave Trade,
and the Diaspora in African History.
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viii NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
Gwyn Campbell is founding Director of the Indian Ocean World Centre
at McGill University, general editor of the Palgrave Series in Indian Ocean
World Studies and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Indian Ocean World
Studies (JIOWS). Born in Madagascar, and raised in Wales, he holds
degrees in economic history from the Universities of Birmingham and
Wales and has taught in India (Voluntary Service Overseas) as well as at
universities in Madagascar, Britain, South Africa, Belgium and
France. He served as an academic consultant for the South African
Government in a series of inter-governmental meetings that led to
the formation of an Indian Ocean regional association in 1997. He
currently holds a Humboldt Award (2017–2019) for his research
and teaching in Indian Ocean world studies and is director of a major
international research project entitled “Appraising Risk, Past and
Present: Interrogating Historical Data to Enhance Understanding of
Environmental Crises in the Indian Ocean World.” His publications
include Africa and the Indian Ocean World from early times to 1900
(Cambridge University Press, 2019), David Griffiths and the Missionary
“History of Madagascar” (2012), An Economic History of Imperial
Madagascar, 1750–1895 (Cambridge University Press, 2005) and, as
editor, Bondage and the Environment in the Indian Ocean World (Palgrave
Macmillan, 2018) and Africa and the Early Indian Ocean World Trade to
circa 1300 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016).
Manikarnika  Dutta completed her MSc in the History of Science,
Technology and Medicine on a Wellcome Trust Master’s Studentship
from the University of Oxford. She is currently pursuing a Wellcome
Trust-funded DPhil project from the same institution. Her research exam-
ines the health and sanitary regulation of European seamen in colonial
Indian port cities, integrating the history of health, imperial gover-
nance, maritime exchange and public policy in the British Empire.
She was awarded the Taniguchi Medal (2018) by the Asian Society
for the History of Medicine for best graduate essay submission.
Monica H. Green is a historian of medicine and health. She has worked
throughout her career in the field of mediaeval European medical history,
focusing primarily on questions of social and intellectual history. Recent
developments in the fields of bioarchaeology and genetics have enabled
new approaches for the reconstruction of the history of the world’s
leading infectious diseases, including the mediaeval scourges, plague
and leprosy. These have induced Green to expand her teaching and
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS ix
research into Global History. Her recent publications include
Pandemic Disease in the Medieval World: Rethinking the Black Death (edi-
tor, 2014/2015), “Putting Africa on the Black Death Map: Narratives
from Genetics and History” (Afriques 9/2018) and “Richard de
Fournival and the Reconfiguration of Learned Medicine in the
Mid-13th Century,” in: Richard de Fournival et les sciences au XIIIe siè-
cle, edited by Joëlle Ducos and Christopher Lucken (2018). Together
with Nükhet Varlık and Joris Roosen, she is currently developing a multi-
disciplinary Black Death Digital Archive.
Peter Hynd is a PhD candidate in the Department of History at McGill
University, where he has worked as project manager of McGill’s Indian
Ocean World Centre. He holds a Master’s Degree in History from
McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, and an undergradu-
ate degree in history from the University of Toronto. His research focuses
on the regulation and taxation of alcohol in British India during the nine-
teenth century. He has also published on the history of cannabis in India,
including a chapter in the forthcoming Cannabis: Global Histories (2021).
Karine Aasgaard Jansen is a senior researcher at the Department of
Culture and Media Studies at Umeå University, Sweden. Her primary
research interests are within the field of medical anthropology, particularly
how public health discourses and interventions feed into local illness expe-
riences and conceptualizations of vector-borne epidemics. She is currently
leading the research project “Contagion and Culture: The 2005 to
2007 chikungunya epidemic in the Western Indian Ocean” funded by
the Swedish Research Council. The study focuses on human–environ-
ment interaction and its effect on the diffusion and understanding of
chikungunya across the islands of Réunion and Mauritius. Her most
recent publications are from her postdoc project on the swine flu
pandemic and subsequent mass vaccination in Scandinavia and
include “What to expect when you’re expecting a pandemic: Public
health and lay perceptions of the 2009–2010 swine flu outbreak and
mass vaccination in Norway”, Ethnologia Scandinavica 48, 2018, and
“To be vaccinated, or not to be vaccinated, is that the (only) ques-
tion? Norwegian perceptions of vaccination and the swine flu pan-
demic in 2009 and 2010”, Tidsskrift for Kulturforskning, 17/1, 2018.
She has also contributed to the anthology Histories of Medicine and
Healing in the Indian Ocean World, edited by Facil Tesfaye and Anna
Winterbottom (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), with a chapter entitled
“Tropical disease and the making of France in Réunion.”