Description: Further DetailsTitle: Wording the WorldCondition: NewSubtitle: Veena Das and Scenes of InheritanceISBN-10: 0823261859EAN: 9780823261857ISBN: 9780823261857Publisher: Fordham University PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 12/01/2014Description: The essays in this book explore the critical possibilities that have been opened by Veena Das’s 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. Das’s 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 one’s 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, anthropology’s 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.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 254mmItem Length: 178mmAuthor: Roma ChatterjiGenre: Society & CultureBook Series: Forms of LivingTopic: Social SciencesRelease Year: 2014 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: Wording the World
Title: Wording the World
Subtitle: Veena Das and Scenes of Inheritance
ISBN-10: 0823261859
EAN: 9780823261857
ISBN: 9780823261857
Release Date: 12/01/2014
Release Year: 2014
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Series: Forms of Living
Book Title: Wording the World : Veena Das and Scenes of Inheritance
Number of Pages: 496 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Topic: General, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Essays
Publication Year: 2014
Item Height: 0.6 in
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Philosophy, Social Science, Literary Collections
Item Weight: 23.5 Oz
Author: Roma Chatterji
Item Length: 10 in
Item Width: 7 in
Book Series: Forms of Living Ser.
Format: Hardcover
