Nobody's people : hierarchy as hope in a society of thieves /

"What if we could imagine hierarchy not as a social ill, but as a source of social creativity and hope? In Nobody's People, Anastasia Piliavsky takes us into the world of thieves, the Kanjars, in the Indian state of Rajasthan. Introducing us to wily policemen, quirky aristocrats, and resou...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Piliavsky, Anastasia, 1981- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2021]
Series:South Asia in motion.
Subjects:
Kanjar (South Asian people) > India > Rajasthan > Social conditions.
Thieves > India > Rajasthan > Social conditions.
Social status > India > Rajasthan.
Voleurs > Inde > Rājasthān > Conditions sociales.
Statut social > Inde > Rājasthān.
Rural conditions
Social status
Rajasthan (India) > Rural conditions.
Rājasthān (Inde) > Conditions rurales.
India > Rajasthan
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Hierarchy as hope
  • The lords of begun
  • The people who were not there
  • The perils of masterless people
  • How to make and eat a goddess in nine days
  • Who and whose
  • The new lords of Begun
  • Every man a king.

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