Wording the World (eBook, PDF)

Veena Das and Scenes of Inheritance
Redaktion: Chatterji, Roma

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Produktbeschreibung

The essays in this book explore the critical possibilities that have been opened by Veena DasGCOs work. Taking off from her writing on pain as a call for acknowledgment, several essays explore how social sciences render pain, suffering, and the claims of the other as part of an ethics of responsibility. They search for disciplinary resources to contest the implicit division between those whose pain receives attention and those whose pain is seen as out of sync with the times and hence written out of the historical record.Another theme is the co-constitution of the event and the everyday, especially in the context of violence. DasGs groundbreaking formulation of the everyday provides a frame for understanding how both violence and healing might grow out of it. Drawing on notions of life and voice and the struggle to write oneGs own narrative, the contributors provide rich ethnographies of what it is to inhabit a devastated world.Ethics as a form of attentiveness to the other, especially in the context of poverty, deprivation, and the corrosion of everyday life, appears in several of the essays. They take up the classic themes of kinship and obligation but give them entirely new meaning.Finally, anthropologyGs affinities with the literary are reflected in a final set of essays that show how forms of knowing in art and in anthropology are related through work with painters, performance artists, and writers.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Fordham University Press
• Seitenzahl: 496
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780823261888
• Artikelnr.: 45518295

Autorenporträt

Roma Chatterji is Professor at the Department of Sociology, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi. She has authored Speaking with Pictures: Folk Art and the Narrative Tradition in India (2012), Writing Identities: Folklore and the Performing Arts of Purulia, West Bengal (2009) and (with Deepak Mehta) Living with Violence: An Anthropology of Events and Everyday Life (2007). She is currently working on folk art and new media.