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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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
Fordham University Press,
2019.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Touch and its elements and kinds
- Touch, an a priori approach
- Touch in its social and historical aspects I
- Touch in its social and historical aspects II
- Touch and texts: ancient and modern
- (Un)touchability of things and people
- Sociality and sociability
- Recapitulation with variations.