Wording the world [electronic resource] : Veena Das and scenes of inheritance / edited by Roma Chatterji.

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TextSeries: Forms of living | UPCC book collections on Project MUSE | UPCC book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: Baltimore, Md. : Project Muse, 2014 2015); New York [New York] : Fordham University Press, 2015. 2015)Edition: First editionDescription: 1 online resource (1 PDF (ix, 481 pages) :) illustrationsISBN:

9780823261895

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301.01 23

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H59.D37 W678 2015

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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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