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Practicing Caste : On Touching and Not Touching /

This work attempts a fundamental break from the tradition of caste studies, using a version of phenomenology, structuralism, and post-structuralism to give a radical description of touchability and untouchability in terms of a rhetoric and semantics of touch. Written in minimalist style, it attempts...

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Autor principal: Jaaware, Aniket (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Fordham University Press, 2019.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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