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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.
By:
Nidhi Mahajan Imprint: University of California Press Country of Publication: United States Dimensions:
Height: 229mm,
Width: 152mm,
Spine: 15mm
Weight: 363g ISBN:9780520413511 ISBN 10: 0520413512 Pages: 272 Publication Date:03 June 2025 Audience:
College/higher education
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Further / Higher Education
Format:Paperback Publisher's Status: Active
Nidhi Mahajan is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz.