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    Outcasts of the Islands: The Sea Gypsies of South East Asia (Text Only)

    By Sebastian Hope

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    An enchanting tale of travels among South East Asia’s Sea Gypsies, scattered groups of semi-nomadic fisher people who occupy the spaces between the islands.

    A glance at the map of South East Asia reveals more blue than green, more sea than land. By separating the islands of the Malay Archipelago the sea has created diversity; by joining them together it has enabled trade and laid them open to influences from China, India and the Middle East. All Malays were sailors once – their ancestors reached the islands by boat – and the sea holds a central place in the Malay experience and imagination.

    The Sea Gypsies who still occupy this realm seem to live still in the hidden world of Conrad’s tales. They form social co-operative groups, each with its own territory, and move between established anchorages within that range, following the changing currents, seasons and fishing opportunities, and are specialists at exploiting the coral reefs. They have an oral tradition which accounts for their origins with myths of floods and tidal waves. Their hunter-gatherer lifestyle and a belief system that is at root a blend of animism, ancestor worship and sympathetic magic are characteristics they share with the early Malay cultures.

    Sebastian Hope travels and lives with groups of Sea Gypsies in both the east and the west of South East Asia, experiencing their subsistence lifestyle, unchanged for centuries. Travelling to fish and fishing to live, like the Sea Gypsies themselves he relies solely on his skills as a sailor and fisherman to survive.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins UK
    Release dateJul 28, 2016
    ISBN9780007441099
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    Sebastian Hope

    Born in 1964, Sebastian Hope lived in five different places by the age of seven.. After reading English Literature at Bristol University, Hope set off on a journey around the world that was to last almost two years, working at the Sydney Morning Herald along the way. It was at the end of this trip, on an island off the coast of the Yucatan, that he decided, on the toss of a coin, to pursue a career in travel writing and photography. The other side was International Law.

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      The author tells the story of the poor fisher-people who live, work and die on their small boats between Borneo and the Phillipines. They are essentially Stateless, living according to fading traditions in an increasingly untenable economic and ecological environment. They are not, however naive or unaware of the forces of modernisation. Hope does not downplay how his efforts to gain an 'authentic' experience were intrusive and disruptive to the people who took him in. This is a classic story of how the lives of those subjected to athropological inquiry are changed by the experience, as the author honestly observes. Hope's real achievement here however, beyond the wonderful portrait of these peoples and their vanishing lifestyle, is his acknowledgement of how the experience changed his own life.