Entangled Project

Category: history

  • Inhambane and Bazaruto in Historical Records – Guest Blog Post

    In this blog post, Entangled Project Collaborator Júlio Machele highlights a small selection of the historical information that we have about this region. Historical texts, oral histories and linguistic evidence can be combined with archaeological research to provide a more detailed understanding of this region’s past.  The research of the Entangled project takes place in the present-day province of Inhambane…

  • The Story of Dead Man’s Island

    During our 2024 fieldwork around the Vilankulo area we spoke to various members of local communities about their knowledge of the history of the coast and of the Bazaruto Islands, in both formal interviews and informal conversations. Several times we were told a story about a sandbank in the Vilankulo Bay which one teller ominously…