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Prostitutes --- Prostitution --- Prostituées --- Social conditions. --- Case studies. --- Conditions sociales --- Cas, Etudes de --- Prostituées --- Conditions sociales.
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"Sophie Day presents houses as critical actors which provide the grounds for citizenship in Ladakh, North India. She explores the life stories of a handful of houses, most of them Buddhist, as they sculpt - or render - their inhabitants. Through collaboration with Ladakhi colleagues - together looking over images and objects, walking plots of land, inspecting old buildings, new developments and emptying villages - Day produces storyboards that combine image and text to show how houses have been imagined, built, repurposed, and dismantled since the 1980s. These Ladakhis were pastoralists, nuns, traders and smallholders forty years ago, but now depend largely on the Indian state and tourism for their livelihood. One consequence is the partitioning of houses among families, which evoke earlier partitions involving momentous territorial settlements between postcolonial India, Pakistan, and China in the 20th century. Partitioning legacies continue to trouble national, regional, and domestic house plots today. Day's exploration of the intricate relations of personhood between domestic houses and their members provides insight into the anthropology of a region for specialists and non-specialists alike"--
Dwellings --- Social aspects. --- Ladākh (India) --- Social conditions. --- Dwellings and society --- Society and dwellings --- La-dwags (India) --- Ladākh District (India) --- Ladākh Tahsil (India) --- Laddākha (India) --- Laddakh (India) --- Union Territory of Ladākh (India)
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Sociology of culture --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Sociology of work --- Working conditions --- Sex work --- Sex industry --- Book --- Daily life --- Great Britain
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Day explores how individual sex workers live, in public and in private.
Prostitutes --- Prostitution --- Social conditions. --- Prostituées --- Conditions sociales. --- Prostituées
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First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Prostitution --- Sex industry --- Health aspects
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What is the place of the ethical in human life? How do we render it visible? How might sustained attention to the ethical transform anthropological theory and enrich our understanding of thought, speech, and social action? This volume offers a significant attempt to address these questions. It is a common experience of most ethnographers that the people we encounter are trying to do what they consider right or good, are being evaluated according to criteria of what is right and good, or are in some debate about what constitutes the human good. Yet anthropological theory has tended to overlook all this in favor of analyses that emphasize structure, power, and interest. Bringing together ethnographic exposition with philosophical concepts and arguments and effectively transcending subdisciplinary boundaries between cultural and linguistic anthropology, the essays collected in this volume explore the ethical entailments of speech and action and demonstrate the centrality of ethical practice, judgment, reasoning, responsibility, cultivation, commitment, and questioning in social life. Rather than focus on codes of conduct or hot-button issues, they make the cumulative argument that ethics is profoundly “ordinary,” pervasive—and possibly even intrinsic to speech and action. In addition to deepening our understanding of ethics, the volume makes an incisive and necessary intervention in anthropological theory, recasting discussion in ways that force us to rethink such concepts as power, agency, and relativism. Individual chapters consider the place of ethics with respect to conversation and interaction; judgment and responsibility; formality, etiquette, performance, ritual, and law; character and empathy; social boundaries and exclusions; socialization and punishment; and commemoration, history, and living together in peace and war. Together they offer a comprehensive portrait of an approach that is now critical for advancing anthropological theory and ethnographic description, as well as fruitful conversation with philosophy.
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