02425nam 2200421 450 991064599630332120230331081645.0(CKB)5670000000613369(NjHacI)995670000000613369(ScCtBLL)ba47cbfc-2c3f-4471-902d-69898ba16a0b(EXLCZ)99567000000061336920230331d2022 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierNullius the anthropology of ownership, sovereignty and the law in India /Kriti KapilaChicago, Illinois :HAU Books,2022.1 online resource (x, 195 pages)1-912808-48-X Acknowledgements -- CHAPTER 1 -- Nullius: An Introduction -- CHAPTER 2 -- The Promise of Law -- CHAPTER 3 -- The Truths of Dispossession -- CHAPTER 4 -- Terra Nullius: The Territory of Sovereignty -- CHAPTER 5 -- Res Nullius: The Properties of Culture -- CHAPTER 6 -- Corpus Nullius: The Labor of Sovereignty -- CHAPTER 7 -- Coda: The Illusion of Property -- References -- Index.Nullius is an anthropological account of the troubled status of ownership in India and its consequences for our understanding of sovereignty and social relations. Though property rights and ownership are said to be a cornerstone of modern law, in the Indian case they are often a spectral presence. Kapila offers a detailed study of paradigms where proprietary relations have been erased, denied, misappropriated. The book examines three forms of negation, where the Indian state de facto adopted doctrines of terra nullius (in the erasure of indigenous title), res nullius (in acquiring museum objects), and, controversially, corpus nullius (in denying citizens ownership of their bodies under biometrics). The result is a pathbreaking reconnection of questions of property, exchange, dispossession, law, and sovereignty.PropertyPropertySocial aspectsSovereigntyMoral and ethical aspectsIndiaProperty.PropertySocial aspects.SovereigntyMoral and ethical aspects.346.5404Kapila Kriti1348942NjHacINjHaclBOOK9910645996303321Nullius3086766UNINA