Moorings: Indian Ocean voyages, labor, and fieldwork

01/12/2025 38 min
Moorings: Indian Ocean voyages, labor, and fieldwork

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Lalita du Perron talks to Nidhi Mahajan, Associate Professor of Anthropology at UC-Santa Cruz about her new book Moorings: Voyages of Capital across the Indian Ocean, the way her fieldwork interviews shaped her project, and the arduous process of turning a PhD into a monograph.