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Life and words : violence and the descent into the ordinary /
In this powerful, compassionate work, one of anthropology's most distinguished ethnographers weaves together rich fieldwork with a compelling critical analysis in a book that will surely make a signal contribution to contemporary thinking about violence and how it affects everyday life. Veena D...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
©2007.
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| Series: | Philip E. Lilienthal Asian studies imprint.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- The event and the everyday
- The figure of the abducted woman : the citizen as sexed
- Language and body : transactions and the construction of pain
- The act of witnessing : violence, gender, and subjectivity
- Boundaries, violence, and the work of time
- Thinking of time and subjectivity
- In the region of rumor
- The force of the local
- The signature of the state : the paradox of illegibility
- Three portraits of grief and mourning
- Revisiting trauma, testimony, and political community.