Veena Das

Life and Words

Violence and the Descent into the Ordinary

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Contributes to contemporary thinking about violence and how it affects everyday life. This book 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of California Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Dezember 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 227mm x 161mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 466g
• ISBN-13: 9780520247451
• ISBN-10: 0520247450
• Artikelnr.: 21872856

Autorenporträt

Veena Das is Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Anthropology and Professor of Humanities at Johns Hopkins University and a founding member of the Institute of Socio-Economic Research in Development and Democracy. Among her books is Violence and Subjectivity, which she coedited with Arthur Kleinman, Mamphela Ramphele, and Pamela Reynolds (UC Press). Stanley Cavell is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Harvard University.