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UNINA9910457572803321 |
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Das Veena |
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Life and words [[electronic resource] ] : violence and the descent into the ordinary / / Veena Das ; foreword by Stanley Cavell |
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2007 |
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9786612358401 |
1-282-35840-5 |
0-520-93953-0 |
1-4294-1914-8 |
1-60129-532-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (296 p.) |
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A Philip E. Lilienthal book in Asian studies |
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Riots - India - History - 20th century |
Sikhs - Crimes against - India |
Suffering - India |
Violence - India |
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India History Partition, 1947 |
India Politics and government |
India Social conditions |
India Social life and customs |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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"A Philip E. Lilienthal book"--P. [ii]. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Front matter -- Contents -- Foreword -- 1. The Event and the Everyday -- 2. The Figure of the Abducted Woman: The Citizen as Sexed -- 3. Language and Body: Transactions in the Construction of Pain -- 4. The Act of Witnessing: Violence, Gender, and Subjectivity -- 5. Boundaries, Violence, and the Work of Time -- 6. Thinking of Time and Subjectivity -- 7. In the Region of Rumor -- 8. The Force of the Local -- 9. The Signature of the State: The Paradox of Illegibility -- 10. Three Portraits of Grief and Mourning -- 11. Revisiting Trauma, Testimony, and Political Community -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index |
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In this powerful, compassionate work, one of anthropology's most |
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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 then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. In a major departure from much anthropological inquiry, Das asks how this violence has entered "the recesses of the ordinary" instead of viewing it as an interruption of life to which we simply bear witness. Das engages with anthropological work on collective violence, rumor, sectarian conflict, new kinship, and state and bureaucracy as she embarks on a wide-ranging exploration of the relations among violence, gender, and subjectivity. Weaving anthropological and philosophical reflections on the ordinary into her analysis, Das points toward a new way of interpreting violence in societies and cultures around the globe. The book will be indispensable reading across disciplinary boundaries as we strive to better understand violence, especially as it is perpetrated against women. |
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UNINA9910461680503321 |
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Autore |
Grossmann Matthew |
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The not-so-special interests [[electronic resource] ] : interest groups, public representation, and American governance / / Matt Grossmann |
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Stanford, Calif., : Stanford University Press, 2012 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (250 p.) |
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Pressure groups - United States |
Lobbying - United States |
Representative government and representation - United States |
Electronic books. |
United States Politics and government |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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pt. 1. Who is represented? -- pt. 2. Whose voice is heard?. |
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""Lobbyist"" tends to be used as a dirty word in politics. Indeed, during the 2008 presidential primary campaign, Hillary Clinton was derided for even suggesting that some lobbyists represent ""real Americans."" But although many popular commentators position interest groups as representatives of special-not ""public""-interests, much organized advocacy is designed to advance public interests and ideas. Advocacy organizations-more than 1,600 of them-are now an important component of national political institutions. This book uses original data to explain why certain public groups |
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