Exorbitance : a speculative ethnography of inheritance / Deborah A. Thomas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thomas, Deborah A., 1966- author.

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection

Lewis Henry Morgan lectures

The Lewis Henry Morgan lectures

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sovereignty.

Postcolonialism--Caribbean Area.

Postcolonialism.

Anthropology and history--Caribbean Area.

Anthropology and history.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 258 pages).

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2025.

Summary:

"Exorbitance draws on legacies of the Caribbean to examine how the concept of inheritance attunes us to forms of autonomy and interdependence that circulate in and around statements of sovereignty. Deborah A. Thomas places sovereignty beyond the state and parameters of institutions, positioning it instead as practices, performances, and processes that refuse law and dominion and draw attention to alternative genealogies of governance, community, and ceremony. Using the Caribbean region as a case study, she demonstrates how bodily knowledge influences theories and actions of sovereignty. Foregrounding embodied methods and insights to envision a more radical humanist anthropology, Thomas argues that we are heir not only to colonial logics, but also the means to refuse and retool them"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Sovereign-ing: The Body as Method

Traces

Testimonies

Embodiments

The Labor of Sovereignty.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Thomas, Deborah A., 1966- Exorbitance.

ISBN:

9781478061441

1478061448

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.