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Moorings: Voyages of Capital Across the Indian Ocean

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Availability:In StockContributor:Nidhi MahajanPublish date:2025-06-03Pages:272
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of California PressISBN-13:9780520413511ISBN-10:520413512UPC:9780520413511Book Category:Social Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:Anthropology, Asia, Maritime History & PiracyBook Topic:Cultural & Social, SouthSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.58 inchesWeight:0.8113Product ID:SCYNT355FY
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Moorings follows sailors from the Gulf of Kachchh in India as they voyage across the Indian 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 ocean. Based on historical and ethnographic research aboard ships, at ports, and in religious shrines and homes, Moorings shows how capitalism derives value from historically sedimented practices grounded in caste, gender, and transregional community-based forms of regulation.
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of California PressISBN-13:9780520413511ISBN-10:520413512UPC:9780520413511Book Category:Social Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:Anthropology, Asia, Maritime History & PiracyBook Topic:Cultural & Social, SouthSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.58 inchesWeight:0.8113Product ID:SCYNT355FY
Nidhi Mahajan is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Publisher: University of California Press

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