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Wording the world

Wording the world Veena Das and scenes of inheritance / [electronic resource] : edited by Roma Chatterji. - First edition. - Baltimore, Md. : Project Muse, 2014 New York [New York] : Fordham University Press, 2015. - 1 online resource (1 PDF (ix, 481 pages) :) illustrations. - Forms of living . - Forms of living. UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .

Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 445-467) and index.

Acknowledgments -- Conversations, generations, genres : anthropological knowing as a form of life / Roma Chatterji -- Ethnography in the time of martyrs : history and pain in current anthropological practice / Sylvain Perdigon -- Pedagogies of the clinic : learning to live (again and again) / Aaron Goodfellow -- Disembodied conjugality / Lotte Buch Segal -- Word, image, and movement : translating pain / Ein Lall and Roma Chatterji -- Conceptual vita / Bhrigupati Singh -- The child bears witness : menace, despair, and hope in a courtroom / Pratiksha Baxi -- Experiments with fate : Buddhist morality and human rights in Thailand / Don Selby -- Communitas and recovered life : suffering and recovery in the Sikh carnage of 1984 / Yasmeen Arif -- Sexual violence, law, and qualities of affiliation / Sameena Mulla -- On feelings and finiteness in everyday life / Clara Han -- "Listening to voices" : immigrants, settlers, and citizens at the ethnic margins of the state / Sangeeta Chattoo -- Punjabi inscriptions of kinship and gender : sayings and songs / Rita Brara -- In the event of an anthropological thought / Anand Pandian -- The Ayodhya dispute : law's imagination and the functions of the status quo / Deepak Mehta -- The death of nature in the era of global warming / Naveeda Khan -- Triste Romantik : ruminations on an ethnographic encounter with philosophy / Andrew Brandel -- Making claims to tradition : poetics and politics in the works of young Maithil painters / Mani Shekhar Singh -- The mirror as frame : time and narrative in the folk art of Bengal / Roma Chatterji -- Adjacent thinking : a postscript / Veena Das -- Between words and lives. a thought on the coming together of margins, violence, and suffering : an interview with Veena Das.

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Das, Veena-- Criticism and interpretation.


Anthropological ethics.
Anthropology--Philosophy.


Electronic books.
Electronic books.

H59.D37 / W678 2015

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