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Born in a time of anxiety, Words and Worlds examines some of the disquieting challenges that societies now face. Through an inquiry into a political lexicon of commonsense words, ranging from democracy and revolution to knowledge and authority, from inequality and toleration to war and power, the authors of this book trouble the self-evidence of these terms, bringing into view the hidden transcripts and unexpected trajectories of many settled ...

Born in a time of anxiety, Words and Worlds examines some of the disquieting challenges that societies now face. Through an inquiry into a political lexicon of commonsense words, ranging from democracy and revolution to knowledge and authority, from inequality and toleration to war and power, the authors of this book trouble the self-evidence of these terms, bringing into view the hidden transcripts and unexpected trajectories of many settled ...

This book examines the ways in which knowledge that is inordinate, excessive, and overwhelming comes to mark everyday life in low-income, poor neighborhoods in Delhi with crumbling infrastructures and pervasive violence. Based on long term ethnography in these spaces, this book provides a detailed analysis of the institutions of the state, particularly of policing and law in India. It argues that catastrophic events at the national level and t...

This book examines the ways in which knowledge that is inordinate, excessive, and overwhelming comes to mark everyday life in low-income, poor neighborhoods in Delhi with crumbling infrastructures and pervasive violence. Based on long term ethnography in these spaces, this book provides a detailed analysis of the institutions of the state, particularly of policing and law in India. It argues that catastrophic events at the national level and t...

Textures of the Ordinary shows how life is marked not only by catastrophic events but also by the soft knife of economic deprivation and the repetitive corrosions and routine violence within everyday life itself. As an alternative to normative ethics, this book develops ordinary ethics as attentiveness to the other and as the ability of small acts of care to stand up to horrific violence.

Not just an elegant discourse on how to manage a conceptual life, this is an engagingly courageous one. Like the everyday that accompanies Das at every step, there is no stopping but in the middle. How refreshing her retellings, how illuminating the new hesitations and new certainties that emerge!"-Marilyn Strathern, University of Cambridge "A truly extraordinary work. Das allows the reader to see her thinking in action, as she introduces the ...

Presents key issues on culture and society in the South Asian context. Taking into account economic and political changes in the different South Asian societies, this book provides insight into the cultural life of the region. It is suitable for students interested in cultural studies, anthropology and sociology and South Asian studies.

This book brings together readings on social and economic anthropology in the Indian context. It examines how ethical, moral and affective forces are constitutive of economic activities.

Explores through encounters between individual anthropologists and particular regions of philosophy. This title offers basic concepts of the discipline - including notions of ethics, politics, temporality, self and other, and the nature of human life - are products of a dialogue, both implicit and explicit, between anthropology and philosophy.

Twelve leading anthropologists offer candid reflections on the influence of particular philosophers on their thought and ethnographic practices. They relate the philosophers to matters such as how to respond to the suffering of the other, how concepts arise in the give and take of everyday life, and how to be attuned to the world through the senses.

The very form and reach of the modern state are changing radically under the pressure of globalization. Featuring nine of the leading scholars in the field, this innovative exploration of these transformations develops an ethnographic methodology and theoretical apparatus to assess perceptions of power in three regions where state reform and violence have been particularly dramatic: Africa, Latin America, and South Asia.

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Focusing on low-income neighborhoods in Delhi, this book stitches together three different sets of issues. It examines the different trajectories of illness: What are the circumstances under which illness is absorbed within the normal and when does it exceed the normal putting resources, relationships, and even one's world into jeopardy?

Focusing on low-income neighborhoods in Delhi, this book stitches together three different sets of issues. It examines the different trajectories of illness: What are the circumstances under which illness is absorbed within the normal and when does it exceed the normal putting resources, relationships, and even one's world into jeopardy?

This volume brings together internationally renowned scholars to tackle some of the most important and pressing issues currently debated in the social sciences. Ethnographically and historically rich, these essays go beyond synthesis of scholarly information, they seek to reframe medical anthropology and the discipline of anthropology overall."—Janet Carsten, Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Edinburgh "This remarkab...

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 Das examines case studies including the extreme violence of the Partition of India in 1947 and the massacre of Sikhs in 1984 after the assassination of t...

This book is an original sociological analysis of Hindu caste and ritual based on selected myths from Puranic and Sutra literature, set in a wider discussion of Hinduism. It also charts a fruitful alternative direction for future sociological inquiry. The Third Edition includes a new Preface by the author.