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Wording the world : Veena Das and scenes of inheritance / edited by Roma Chatterji.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: New York : Fordham University Press, (c)2015.Edition: First editionDescription: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780823261895
  • 9780823261888
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • GN495 .W673 2015
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Contents:
Conversations, Generations, Genres: Anthropological Knowing as a Form of Life / Roma Chatterji -- Ethnography in the Time of Martyrs: History and Pain in Current Anthropological Practice / Sylvain Perdigon -- Pedagogies of the Clinic: Learning to Live (Again and Again) / Aaron Goodfellow -- Disembodied Conjugality / Lotte Buch Segal -- Word, Image and Movement: Translating Pain / Ein Lal and Roma Chatterji -- Conceptual Vita / Bhrigupati Singh -- The Child Bears Witness: Menace, Despair and Hope in a Courtroom / Pratiksha Baxi -- Experiments with Fate: Buddhist Morality and Human Rights in Thailand / Don Selby -- Communities and Recovered Life: Suffering and Recovery in the Sikh Carnage of 1984 / Yasmeen Arif -- Sexual Violence, Law and Qualities of Affiliation / Sameena Mulla -- On Feelings and Finiteness in Everyday Life / Clara Han -- 'Listening to Voices': Immigrants, Settlers and Citizens at the Ethnic Margins of the State / Sangeeta Chattoo -- Punjabi Inscriptions of Kinship and Gender: Sayings and Songs / Rita Brara -- In the Event of an Anthropological Thought / Anand Pandian -- The Ayodhya Dispute: Law's Imagination and the Functions of the Status Quo / Deepak Mehta -- The Death of Nature in the Era of Global Warming / Naveeda Khan -- Triste Romantik: Ruminations on an Ethnographic Encounter with Philosophy / Andrew Brandel -- Making Claims to Tradition: Poetics and Politics in the Works of Young Maithil Painters / Mani Shekhar Singh -- The Mirror as Frame: Time and Narrative in the Folk Art of Bengal / Roma Chatterji -- Adjacent Thinking: A Postscript / Veena Das -- Between Words and Lives: A Thought of the Coming Together of Margins, Violence, and Suffering : An Interview with Veena Das.
Subject: "The essays in this book examine how important themes in Veena Das's work have been critically assimilated in the work of a younger generation. Looking at the relation between the event and the everyday, the essays ask how we might trace the picture of thinking in anthropology through ethnography and through artistic, literary and philosophical practice"--
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Conversations, Generations, Genres: Anthropological Knowing as a Form of Life / Roma Chatterji -- Ethnography in the Time of Martyrs: History and Pain in Current Anthropological Practice / Sylvain Perdigon -- Pedagogies of the Clinic: Learning to Live (Again and Again) / Aaron Goodfellow -- Disembodied Conjugality / Lotte Buch Segal -- Word, Image and Movement: Translating Pain / Ein Lal and Roma Chatterji -- Conceptual Vita / Bhrigupati Singh -- The Child Bears Witness: Menace, Despair and Hope in a Courtroom / Pratiksha Baxi -- Experiments with Fate: Buddhist Morality and Human Rights in Thailand / Don Selby -- Communities and Recovered Life: Suffering and Recovery in the Sikh Carnage of 1984 / Yasmeen Arif -- Sexual Violence, Law and Qualities of Affiliation / Sameena Mulla -- On Feelings and Finiteness in Everyday Life / Clara Han -- 'Listening to Voices': Immigrants, Settlers and Citizens at the Ethnic Margins of the State / Sangeeta Chattoo -- Punjabi Inscriptions of Kinship and Gender: Sayings and Songs / Rita Brara -- In the Event of an Anthropological Thought / Anand Pandian -- The Ayodhya Dispute: Law's Imagination and the Functions of the Status Quo / Deepak Mehta -- The Death of Nature in the Era of Global Warming / Naveeda Khan -- Triste Romantik: Ruminations on an Ethnographic Encounter with Philosophy / Andrew Brandel -- Making Claims to Tradition: Poetics and Politics in the Works of Young Maithil Painters / Mani Shekhar Singh -- The Mirror as Frame: Time and Narrative in the Folk Art of Bengal / Roma Chatterji -- Adjacent Thinking: A Postscript / Veena Das -- Between Words and Lives: A Thought of the Coming Together of Margins, Violence, and Suffering : An Interview with Veena Das.

"The essays in this book examine how important themes in Veena Das's work have been critically assimilated in the work of a younger generation. Looking at the relation between the event and the everyday, the essays ask how we might trace the picture of thinking in anthropology through ethnography and through artistic, literary and philosophical practice"--

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