Wording the World : Veena Das and Scenes of Inheritance /

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"The essays in this book examine how important themes in Veena Das's work have been critically assimilated in the work of a younger generation. Looking at the relation between the event and the everyday, the essays ask how we might trace the picture of thinking in anthropology through ethn...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Fordham University Press, [2015]
Edición:First edition.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Das, Veena.
PHILOSOPHY / General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural.
Power (Social sciences)
Violence.
Social ethics.
Events (Philosophy)
Suffering > Social aspects.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Machine generated contents note:
  • 1. Conversations, Generations, Genres: Anthropological Knowing as a Form of Life
  • Roma Chatterji
  • 2. Ethnography in the Time of Martyrs: History and Pain in Current Anthropological Practice
  • Sylvain Perdigon
  • 3. Pedagogies of the Clinic: Learning to Live (Again and Again)
  • Aaron Goodfellow
  • 4. Disembodied Conjugality
  • Lotte Buch Segal
  • 5. World, Image and Movement: Translating Pain
  • Ein Lal and Roma Chatterji
  • 6. Conceptual Vita
  • Bhrigupati Singh
  • 7. The Child Bears Witness: Menace, Despair and Hope in a Courtroom
  • Pratiksha Baxi
  • 8. Experiments with Fate: Buddhist Morality and Human Rights in Thailand
  • Don Selby
  • 9. Communities and Recovered Life: Suffering and Recovery in the Sikh Carnage of 1984
  • Yasmeen Arif
  • 10. Sexual Violence, Law and Qualities of Affiliation
  • Sameena Mulla
  • 11. On Feelings and Finiteness in Everyday Life
  • Clara Han
  • 12. 'Listening to Voices': Immigrants, Settlers and Citizens at the Ethnic Margins of the State
  • Sangeeta Chattoo
  • 13. Punjabi Inscriptions of Kinship and Gender: Sayings and Songs
  • Rita Brara
  • 14. In the Event of an Anthropological Thought
  • Anand Pandian
  • 15. The Ayodhya Dispute: Law's Imagination and the Functions of the Status Quo
  • Deepak Mehta
  • 16. The Death of Nature in the Era of Global Warming
  • Naveeda Khan
  • 17. Triste Romantik: Ruminations on an Ethnographic Encounter with Philosophy
  • Andrew Brandel
  • 18. Making Claims to Tradition: Poetics and Politics in the Works of Young Maithil Painters
  • Mani Shekhar Singh
  • 19. The Mirror as Frame: Time and Narrative in the Folk Art of Bengal
  • Roma Chatterji
  • 20. Adjacent Thinking: A Postscript
  • Veena Das
  • 21. Between Words and Lives: A Thought of the Coming Together of Margins, Violence, and Suffering
  • An Interview with Veena Das.

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