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Violence and subjectivity
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ISBN: 0520216083 0520216075 9780520216082 Year: 2000 Publisher: Berkeley (Calif.) : University of California press,

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Mirrors of violence : communities, riots, and survivors in South Asia
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ISBN: 0195625471 Year: 1990 Publisher: London Oxford university


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Textures of the ordinary : doing anthropology after Wittgenstein
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ISBN: 9780823287697 Year: 2020 Publisher: New York : Fordham University Press,

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Textures of the Ordinary shows how anthropology finds a companionship with philosophy in the exploration of everyday life. Based on two decades of ethnographic work among low-income urban families in India, Das shows how the notion of texture aligns ethnography with the anthropological tone in Wittgenstein and Cavell, as well as in literary texts. The book shows different routes of return to the everyday as it is corroded not only by catastrophic events but also by repetitive 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. Textures of the Ordinary offers a model of thinking in which concepts and experience are shown to be mutually vulnerable. The book is an intellectually intimate invitation into the ordinary, that which is most simple yet most difficult to perceive in our lives.


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Slum Acts
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ISBN: 9781509537860 9781509537853 Year: 2022 Publisher: Cambridge Polity press

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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 the techniques of governance through which they are handled secrete forms of knowing that get embedded into the nooks and crannies of everyday life, eroding trust, sowing suspicions, and leading to an exhaustion of capacity for care. Yet the paths to survival honed within these spaces generate critique that compels us to ask how punishment and torture become routinized in democracies. Following the paths of those who struggle with these questions in these neighborhoods, the book finds that deep philosophical questions, such as the inhuman as a possibility of the human rather than its boundary, arise in the weaves of these lives and are experienced as a dimension of the social. (Provided by publisher)


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Structure and Cognition: Aspects of Hindu Caste and Ritual
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ISBN: 9780199081172 Year: 2012 Publisher: New Delhi ; Oxford : Oxford University Press,

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Sociological analysis of Hindu caste & ritual has primarily been confined to the empirical study of local communities. In this work the author adds a new dimension by basing her data on an examination of selected myths in Puranic & Sutra literature, in particular the Dharmaranya Purana & the Grihya Sutra.


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Structure and cognition: aspects of Hindu caste and ritual
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Year: 1977 Publisher: Delhi: Oxford university press,

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Structure and cognition : aspects of Hindu caste and ritual.
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Year: 1977 Publisher: Bombay : Oxford university press,

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Handbook of Indian sociology
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ISBN: 9780195685107 Year: 2011 Publisher: New Delhi : Oxford university press,

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ISBN: 9781509545803 Year: 2022 Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Polity Press

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