A View from the Dhow: Capitalism and Sovereignty in the Indian Ocean
CASI Seminar
Nidhi Mahajan
Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of California-Santa Cruz
Museum 345, Department of Anthropology, 3260 South Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6398
About the Speaker:
Nidhi Mahajan is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of California-Santa Cruz. Her research focuses on histories of capital, sovereignty, and mobility in the Indian Ocean. Her work has been published in Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, Monsoon, History of the Present, and Island Studies Journal. She is also an artist and has also developed multi-media exhibitions in Kenya, India, and the UAE.
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