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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Das, Veena
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2007.
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.