Nidhi Mahajan

Moorings (eBook, ePUB)

Voyages of Capital across the Indian Ocean

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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Moorings follows sailors from the Gulf of Kachchh in India as they voyage across the ocean on mechanized wooden sailing vessels known as vahans, or dhows. These voyages produce capital through moorings that are spatial, moral, material, and conceptual. With a view from the dhow, the book examines the social worlds of Muslim seafarers who have been rendered invisible even as they maneuver multiple regulatory regimes and the exigencies of life, navigating colonialism, neoliberalism, the rise of Hindutva, insurgency, climate change, and border regimes across the Indian Ocean. Based on historical and ethnographic research aboard ships, at ports and religious shrines, and in homes, Moorings shows how capitalism derives value from historically sedimented practices grounded in caste, gender, and transregional community-based forms of regulation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of California Press
• Seitenzahl: 262
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juni 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780520413528
• Artikelnr.: 72259852

Autorenporträt

Nidhi Mahajan is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz.