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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Chatterji, Roma, editor.

Series:

Forms of living.

Forms of Living

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Suffering--Social aspects.

Suffering.

Events (Philosophy).

Social ethics.

Violence.

Power (Social sciences).

Das, Veena.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (496 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Fordham University Press, 2015.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Acknowledgments

1. Conversations, Generations, Genres: Anthropological Knowing as a Form of Life

2. Ethnography in the Time of Martyrs: History and Pain in Current Anthropological Practice

3. Pedagogies of the Clinic: Learning to Live (Again and Again)

4. Disembodied Conjugality

5. Word, Image, and Movement: Translating Pain

6. Conceptual Vita

7. The Child Bears Witness: Menace, Despair, and Hope in a Courtroom

8. Experiments with Fate: Buddhist Morality and Human Rights in Thailand

9. Communitas and Recovered Life: Suffering and Recovery in the Sikh Carnage of 1984

10. Sexual Violence, Law, and Qualities of Affiliation

11. On Feelings and Finiteness in Everyday Life

12. "Listening to Voices": Immigrants, Settlers, and Citizens at the Ethnic Margins of the State

13. Punjabi Inscriptions of Kinship and Gender: Sayings and Songs

14. In the Event of an Anthropological Thought

15. The Ayodhya Dispute: Law's Imagination and the Functions of the Status Quo

16. The Death of Nature in the Era of Global Warming

17. Triste Romantik: Ruminations on an Ethnographic Encounter with Philosophy

18. Making Claims to Tradition: Poetics and Politics in the Works of Young Maithil Painters

19. The Mirror as Frame: Time and Narrative in the Folk Art of Bengal

20. Adjacent Thinking: A Postscript

21. Between Words and Lives. A Thought on the Coming Together of Margins, Violence, and Suffering: An Interview with Veena Das

Notes

Bibliography

List of Contributors

Index

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

I

J

K

L

M

N

O

P

R

S

T

U

V

W

Y

Z.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780823261871

0823261875