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.
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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.
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IT SO HAPPENS THAT FOR MANY YEARS NOW I have been engaged in thinking and writing about violence and asking what kind of work anthropology does in shaping the object we have come to call violence. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
jhuggi dwellers, poisonous knowledge, maintaining violence, masculine nation, abducted person, mourning laments, abducted woman, abducted women, phenomenal time, panic rumors, unclaimed experience, perlocutionary force, swadeshi movement, antisocial elements, relief camps Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Operation Blue Star, Indira Gandhi, Constituent Assembly, Siglikar Sikhs, Congress Party, Chief Secretary, Golden Temple, Philosophical Investigations, Tej Singh, Uttar Pradesh, Nathu Singh, Mahatma Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi, Sanjay Gandhi, Sukkha Singh, The Winter's Tale, Middle East, Pandit Thakur Das Bhargava, Sa'adat Hasan Manto, Sonia Gandhi, Yamuna River New!
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Operation Blue Star, Indira Gandhi, Constituent Assembly, Siglikar Sikhs, Congress Party, Chief Secretary, Golden Temple, Philosophical Investigations, Tej Singh, Uttar Pradesh, Nathu Singh, Mahatma Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi, Sanjay Gandhi, Sukkha Singh, The Winter's Tale, Middle East, Pandit Thakur Das Bhargava, Sa'adat Hasan Manto, Sonia Gandhi, Yamuna River New!
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- Philosophical Investigations (3rd Edition) by Ludwig Wittgenstein on 12 pages
- Social Suffering by Arthur Kleinman on 4 pages
- The Home and the World by Rabindranath Tagore on page 41, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Home and the World (Penguin Classics) by Rabindranath Tagore on page 41, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Remembering Partition: Violence, Nationalism and History in India by Gyanendra Pandey in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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