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Veena Das

Life and Words

Violence and the Descent into the Ordinary

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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 l… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-520-93953-0
  • EAN: 9780520939530
  • Produktnummer: 21979518
  • Verlag: Vanderbilt University Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
  • Seitenangabe: 296 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 682 KB
  • Auflage: 1. Auflage

Über den Autor


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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