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Textures of the Ordinary :
Das Veena
Textures of the Ordinary : Doing Anthropology After Wittgenstein - Hyderabad Orient BlackSwan 2020
Content :
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 Disappears: 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 ; Acknowledgments ; Notes ; References ; Index
9789390122677
--Violence - Social Ethics --Suffering - Social Aspects--Anthropology - Urban Poor - India
301.01 DAS
Textures of the Ordinary : Doing Anthropology After Wittgenstein - Hyderabad Orient BlackSwan 2020
Content :
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 Disappears: 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 ; Acknowledgments ; Notes ; References ; Index
9789390122677
--Violence - Social Ethics --Suffering - Social Aspects--Anthropology - Urban Poor - India
301.01 DAS