Textures of the ordinary : doing anthropology after Wittgenstein /
Das, Veena,
Textures of the ordinary : doing anthropology after Wittgenstein / Veena Das. - First edition. - New York : Fordham University Press, (c)2020. - 1 online resource (xiii, 410 pages) - Thinking from elsewhere .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Preface --Introduction --1. Wittgenstein and Anthropology: Anticipations --2. A Politics of the Ordinary: Action, Expression, and Everyday Life --3. Ordinary Ethics: Take One --4. Ethics, Self- Knowledge, and Words Not at Home: The Ephemeral and the Durable --5. Disorders of Desire or Moral Striving? Engaging the Life of the Other --6. Psychiatric Power, Mental Illness, and the Claim to the Real: Foucault in the Slums of Delhi --7. The Boundaries of the "We": Cruelty, Responsibility, and Forms of Life --8. A Child Dis appears: Law in the Courts, Law in the Interstices of Everyday Life --9. Of Mistakes, Errors, and Superstition: Reading Wittgenstein's Remarks on Frazer -- 10. Concepts Crisscrossing: Anthropology and Knowledge- Making --11. The Life of Concepts: In the Vicinity of Dying.
Textures of the Ordinary shows how anthropology finds a companionship with philosophy in the exploration of everyday life. Based on two decades of ethnographic work among low-income urban families in India, Das shows how the notion of texture aligns ethnography with the anthropological tone in Wittgenstein and Cavell, as well as in literary texts. The book shows different routes of return to the everyday as it is corroded not only by catastrophic events but also by repetitive 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. Textures of the Ordinary offers a model of thinking in which concepts and experience are shown to be mutually vulnerable. The book is an intellectually intimate invitation into the ordinary, that which is most simple yet most difficult to perceive in our lives. 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.
9780823287901 9780823287918
Anthropology--Philosophy.
Anthropology--India.
Anthropology.
Violence.
Urban poor--India.
Electronic Books.
GN33 / .T498 2020
Textures of the ordinary : doing anthropology after Wittgenstein / Veena Das. - First edition. - New York : Fordham University Press, (c)2020. - 1 online resource (xiii, 410 pages) - Thinking from elsewhere .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Preface --Introduction --1. Wittgenstein and Anthropology: Anticipations --2. A Politics of the Ordinary: Action, Expression, and Everyday Life --3. Ordinary Ethics: Take One --4. Ethics, Self- Knowledge, and Words Not at Home: The Ephemeral and the Durable --5. Disorders of Desire or Moral Striving? Engaging the Life of the Other --6. Psychiatric Power, Mental Illness, and the Claim to the Real: Foucault in the Slums of Delhi --7. The Boundaries of the "We": Cruelty, Responsibility, and Forms of Life --8. A Child Dis appears: Law in the Courts, Law in the Interstices of Everyday Life --9. Of Mistakes, Errors, and Superstition: Reading Wittgenstein's Remarks on Frazer -- 10. Concepts Crisscrossing: Anthropology and Knowledge- Making --11. The Life of Concepts: In the Vicinity of Dying.
Textures of the Ordinary shows how anthropology finds a companionship with philosophy in the exploration of everyday life. Based on two decades of ethnographic work among low-income urban families in India, Das shows how the notion of texture aligns ethnography with the anthropological tone in Wittgenstein and Cavell, as well as in literary texts. The book shows different routes of return to the everyday as it is corroded not only by catastrophic events but also by repetitive 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. Textures of the Ordinary offers a model of thinking in which concepts and experience are shown to be mutually vulnerable. The book is an intellectually intimate invitation into the ordinary, that which is most simple yet most difficult to perceive in our lives. 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.
9780823287901 9780823287918
Anthropology--Philosophy.
Anthropology--India.
Anthropology.
Violence.
Urban poor--India.
Electronic Books.
GN33 / .T498 2020