Wording the World : Veena Das and Scenes of Inheritance /

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The essays in this book explore the critical possibilities that have been opened by Veena Das's work. Taking off from her writing on pain as a call for acknowledgment, several essays explore how social sciences render pain, suffering, and the claims of the other as part of an ethics of responsi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Chatterji, Roma (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Md. : Project Muse, 2014
Edición:First edition.
Colección:Forms of living.
Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Das, Veena > Criticism and interpretation.
Anthropological ethics.
Anthropology > Philosophy.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Conversations, generations, genres : anthropological knowing as a form of life / Roma Chatterji
  • Ethnography in the time of martyrs : history and pain in current anthropological practice / Sylvain Perdigon
  • Pedagogies of the clinic : learning to live (again and again) / Aaron Goodfellow
  • Disembodied conjugality / Lotte Buch Segal
  • Word, image, and movement : translating pain / Ein Lall and Roma Chatterji
  • Conceptual vita / Bhrigupati Singh
  • The child bears witness : menace, despair, and hope in a courtroom / Pratiksha Baxi
  • Experiments with fate : Buddhist morality and human rights in Thailand / Don Selby
  • Communitas and recovered life : suffering and recovery in the Sikh carnage of 1984 / Yasmeen Arif
  • Sexual violence, law, and qualities of affiliation / Sameena Mulla
  • On feelings and finiteness in everyday life / Clara Han
  • "Listening to voices" : immigrants, settlers, and citizens at the ethnic margins of the state / Sangeeta Chattoo
  • Punjabi inscriptions of kinship and gender : sayings and songs / Rita Brara
  • In the event of an anthropological thought / Anand Pandian
  • The Ayodhya dispute : law's imagination and the functions of the status quo / Deepak Mehta
  • The death of nature in the era of global warming / Naveeda Khan
  • Triste Romantik : ruminations on an ethnographic encounter with philosophy / Andrew Brandel
  • Making claims to tradition : poetics and politics in the works of young Maithil painters / Mani Shekhar Singh
  • The mirror as frame : time and narrative in the folk art of Bengal / Roma Chatterji
  • Adjacent thinking : a postscript / Veena Das
  • Between words and lives. a thought on the coming together of margins, violence, and suffering : an interview with Veena Das.

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