Name: Life and Words: Violence and the Descent Into the Ordinary (en Inglés)
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Author: Das, Veena ; Cavell, Stanley
ISBN: 9780520247451

portada Life and Words: Violence and the Descent Into the Ordinary (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Veena Das

Prefacio de

Stanley Cavell

Editorial

University of California Press

Año

2006

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

296

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

22.7 x 16.1 x 1.8 cm

Peso

0.40 kg.

ISBN

0520247450

ISBN13

9780520247451

N° edición

Categorías

Asia
Violencia y abusos en la sociedad
Materia antropología social y cultural etnográfica
Historia de asia

Life and Words: Violence and the Descent Into the Ordinary (en Inglés)

Veena Das (Autor) · Stanley Cavell (Prefacio de) · University of California Press · Tapa Blanda

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In this powerful, compassionate work, one of anthropology's most distinguished ethnographers weaves together rich fieldwork with a compelling critical analysis in a book that will surely make a signal contribution to contemporary thinking about violence and how it affects everyday life. Veena Das 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. In a major departure from much anthropological inquiry, Das asks how this violence has entered "the recesses of the ordinary" instead of viewing it as an interruption of life to which we simply bear witness. Das engages with anthropological work on collective violence, rumor, sectarian conflict, new kinship, and state and bureaucracy as she embarks on a wide-ranging exploration of the relations among violence, gender, and subjectivity. Weaving anthropological and philosophical reflections on the ordinary into her analysis, Das points toward a new way of interpreting violence in societies and cultures around the globe. The book will be indispensable reading across disciplinary boundaries as we strive to better understand violence, especially as it is perpetrated against women.