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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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Autore: Das Veena Visualizza persona
Titolo: Life and words [[electronic resource] ] : violence and the descent into the ordinary / / Veena Das ; foreword by Stanley Cavell Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2007
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (296 p.)
Disciplina: 303.60954
Soggetto topico: Riots - India - History - 20th century
Sikhs - Crimes against - India
Suffering - India
Violence - India
Soggetto geografico: India History Partition, 1947
India Politics and government
India Social conditions
India Social life and customs
Soggetto non controllato: 1947
1984
anthropologists
anthropology
case studies
collective violence
contemporary thought
critical analysis
ethnographers
ethnography
fieldwork
gender studies
gendered violence
historical
history of violence
human condition
india
indira gandhi
interdisciplinary
massacre of sikhs
men and women
nonfiction
partition of india
philosophical
political theory
sectarian conflict
social science
understanding violence
violent cultures
violent societies
Note generali: "A Philip E. Lilienthal book"--P. [ii].
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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
Sommario/riassunto: In 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.
Titolo autorizzato: Life and words  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 9786612358401
1-282-35840-5
0-520-93953-0
1-4294-1914-8
1-60129-532-4
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910784412003321
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