Iain Walker has a PhD in Anthropology from the University of Sydney and has held positions at the University of New South Wales, Macquarie University, and the University of Oxford. He is currently Research Officer at Martin Luther University and Research Associate at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, both in Halle, Germany.
"Comprehensive, compelling, and engagingly written, Iain Walker's
history is a major work and an indispensable and impressive
contribution to the scarce scholarly literature in English on the
Comoros."-- Michael Lambek, Professor of Anthropology, University
of Toronto Scarborough and author of Island in the Stream: An
Ethnographic History of Mayott"This detailed and authoritative
history of the Comoros is long overdue. At last, with their richly
documented past and their numerous traditional histories, these
islands can be better understood as lying at the very centre of the
maritime economy and culture of the western Indian Ocean."--Malyn
Newitt, author of A Short History of Mozambique
"A much-needed and wide-ranging study of the complex history of the
Comoros. Walker reveals how these islands of luxuriant jungles and
the fragrance of ylang ylang became the site for violent
contention, and offers a comprehensive case study of the long-term
legacies of colonialism.'"--Robert Aldrich, Professor of European
History, University of Sydney
"It is a particular strength of Iain Walker's deeply researched
history of the Comoros that he both locates the islands in their
wider regional and global contexts and deftly explains their very
complex social system."--Edward Alpers, Research Professor of
History, UCLA, and author of The Indian Ocean in World History
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