Practicing Caste : On Touching and Not Touching /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jaaware, Aniket (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York, NY : Fordham University Press, 2019.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Touch.
Caste.
HISTORY > Asia > India & South Asia.
PSYCHOLOGY > Physiological Psychology.
castes.
touch.
Castes.
Toucher.
Social Class
Touch
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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