LEADER 04211nam 2200793Ia 450 001 9910827297903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9786612358401 010 $a1-282-35840-5 010 $a0-520-93953-0 010 $a1-4294-1914-8 010 $a1-60129-532-4 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520939530 035 $a(CKB)1000000000354356 035 $a(EBL)275766 035 $a(OCoLC)437175011 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000192071 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11190050 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000192071 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10186047 035 $a(PQKB)10693976 035 $a(OCoLC)77522039 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse30738 035 $a(DE-B1597)518809 035 $a(OCoLC)1027332942 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520939530 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL275766 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10146815 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL235840 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC275766 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000354356 100 $a20060127d2007 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurun#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aLife and words $eviolence and the descent into the ordinary /$fVeena Das ; foreword by Stanley Cavell 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aBerkeley $cUniversity of California Press$dc2007 215 $a1 online resource (296 p.) 225 0 $aA Philip E. Lilienthal book in Asian studies 300 $a"A Philip E. Lilienthal book"--P. [ii]. 311 0 $a0-520-24744-2 311 0 $a0-520-24745-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tForeword --$t1. The Event and the Everyday --$t2. The Figure of the Abducted Woman: The Citizen as Sexed --$t3. Language and Body: Transactions in the Construction of Pain --$t4. The Act of Witnessing: Violence, Gender, and Subjectivity --$t5. Boundaries, Violence, and the Work of Time --$t6. Thinking of Time and Subjectivity --$t7. In the Region of Rumor --$t8. The Force of the Local --$t9. The Signature of the State: The Paradox of Illegibility --$t10. Three Portraits of Grief and Mourning --$t11. Revisiting Trauma, Testimony, and Political Community --$tNotes --$tAcknowledgments --$tIndex 330 $aIn this powerful, compassionate work, one of anthropology's most 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. 606 $aRiots$zIndia$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aSikhs$xCrimes against$zIndia 606 $aSuffering$zIndia 606 $aViolence$zIndia 607 $aIndia$xHistory$yPartition, 1947 607 $aIndia$xPolitics and government 607 $aIndia$xSocial conditions 607 $aIndia$xSocial life and customs 615 0$aRiots$xHistory 615 0$aSikhs$xCrimes against 615 0$aSuffering 615 0$aViolence 676 $a303.60954 700 $aDas$b Veena$0696295 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910827297903321 996 $aLife and words$91379776 997 $aUNINA