Textures of the ordinary : doing anthropology after Wittgenstein /

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Textures of the Ordinary shows how anthropology finds a companionship with philosophy in the exploration of everyday life. Based on two decades of ethnographic work among low-income urban families in India, Das shows how the notion of texture aligns ethnography with the anthropological tone in Wittg...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Das, Veena (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Fordham University Press, 2020.
Edición:First edition.
Colección:Thinking from elsewhere.
Temas:
Anthropology > Philosophy.
Anthropology > India.
Anthropology.
Violence.
Urban poor > India.
Electronic books.
Anthropology
Violence
Anthropologie > Philosophie.
Anthropologie > Inde.
Anthropologie.
Pauvres en milieu urbain > Inde.
Livres numériques.
anthropology.
violence.
e-books.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural & Social.
Anthropology > Philosophy
Urban poor
India
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • 1. Wittgenstein and Anthropology: Anticipations
  • 2. A Politics of the Ordinary: Action, Expression, and Everyday Life
  • 3. Ordinary Ethics: Take One
  • 4. Ethics, Self- Knowledge, and Words Not at Home: The Ephemeral and the Durable
  • 5. Disorders of Desire or Moral Striving? Engaging the Life of the Other
  • 6. Psychiatric Power, Mental Illness, and the Claim to the Real: Foucault in the Slums of Delhi
  • 7. The Boundaries of the "We": Cruelty, Responsibility, and Forms of Life
  • 8. A Child Dis appears: Law in the Courts, Law in the Interstices of Everyday Life
  • 9. Of Mistakes, Errors, and Superstition: Reading Wittgenstein's Remarks on Frazer
  • 10. Concepts Crisscrossing: Anthropology and Knowledge- Making
  • 11. The Life of Concepts: In the Vicinity of Dying.

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