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UNINA9910808433203321 |
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Autore |
Ganguly Keya |
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Titolo |
States of exception : everyday life and postcolonial identity / / Keya Ganguly |
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Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2001 |
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ISBN |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (228 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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East Indian Americans - Ethnic identity |
East Indian Americans - Psychology |
East Indian Americans - Social life and customs |
Identity (Philosophical concept) |
Memory (Philosophy) |
Postcolonialism - Social aspects - United States |
Postcolonialism - United States - Psychological aspects |
United States Ethnic relations |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-209) and index. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-209) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Inroduction: Gunga Din and other anomalies -- Writing the field -- The antinomies of everyday life -- Personal memory and the contradictions of selfhood -- Food and the habitus -- The dialectics of ethnic spectatorship. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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A philosophical anthropology of everyday experience, this book is also a deeply informed and thought-provoking reflection on the work of cultural critique. States of Exception looks into a community of immigrants from India living in southern New Jersey-a group to whom the author, as a daughter of two of its members, enjoyed unprecedented access. |
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