Veena Das

Textures of the Ordinary

Doing Anthropology after Wittgenstein

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Produktbeschreibung

Textures of the Ordinary shows how life is marked not only by catastrophic events but also by the soft knife of economic deprivation and the repetitive corrosions and routine violence within everyday life itself. As an alternative to normative ethics, this book develops ordinary ethics as attentiveness to the other and as the ability of small acts of care to stand up to horrific violence.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Fordham University Press
• Seitenzahl: 430
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Mai 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 845g
• ISBN-13: 9780823287895
• ISBN-10: 0823287890
• Artikelnr.: 57579310

Autorenporträt

Veena Das

Inhaltsangabe

Preface xi
Introduction 1
1 Wittgenstein and Anthropology: Anticipations 29
2 A Politics of the Ordinary: Action, Expression, and Everyday Life 58
3 Ordinary Ethics: Take One 96
4 Ethics, Self-Knowledge, and Words Not at Home:
The Ephemeral and the Durable 120
5 Disorders of Desire or Moral Striving? Engaging the Life of the Other
148
6 Psychiatric Power, Mental Illness, and the Claim to the Real:
Foucault in the Slums of Delhi 173
7 The Boundaries of the "We": Cruelty, Responsibility, and Forms of Life
198
8 A Child Disappears: Law in the Courts, Law in the Interstices of Everyday
Life 216
9 Of Mistakes, Errors, and Superstition:
Reading Wittgenstein's Remarks on Frazer 246
10 Concepts Crisscrossing: Anthropology and Knowledge-Making 275
11 The Life of Concepts: In the Vicinity of Dying 307
Acknowledgments 333
Notes 337
References 373
Index 403