Veena Das is Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Anthropology and adjunct professor of humanities at the Department of Comparative Thought and Literature at the Johns Hopkins University. Her most recent books are Life and Words: Violence and the Descent into the Ordinary (2007), Affliction: Health, Disease, Poverty (2015), and Four Lectures on Ethics (coauthored, 2015). She has also edited or coedited several books on social suffering, living and dying in the contemporary world, and the relation between philosophy and anthropology. Das is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Academy of Scientists from Developing Societies, and Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy. She has received honorary doctorates from the University of Chicago, University of Edinburgh, University of Bern, and from Durham University. In 2015, she received the Nessim Habib Prize from the University of Geneva.

• Preface xiIntroduction 11 Wittgenstein and Anthropology: Anticipations 292 A Politics of the Ordinary: Action, Expression, and Everyday Life 583 Ordinary Ethics: Take One 964 Ethics, Self-Knowledge, and Words Not at Home:The Ephemeral and the Durable 1205 Disorders of Desire or Moral Striving? Engaging the Life of the Other 1486 Psychiatric Power, Mental Illness, and the Claim to the Real:Foucault in the Slums of Delhi 1737 The Boundaries of the "We": Cruelty, Responsibility, and Forms of Life 1988 A Child Disappears: Law in the Courts, Law in the Interstices of Everyday Life 2169 Of Mistakes, Errors, and Superstition:Reading Wittgenstein's Remarks on Frazer 24610 Concepts Crisscrossing: Anthropology and Knowledge-Making 27511 The Life of Concepts: In the Vicinity of Dying 307Acknowledgments 333Notes 337References 373Index 403

Veena Das is Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Anthropology and adjunct professor of humanities at the Department of Comparative Thought and Literature at the Johns Hopkins University. Her most recent books are Life and Words: Violence and the Descent into the Ordinary (2007), Affliction: Health, Disease, Poverty (2015), and Four Lectures on Ethics (coauthored, 2015). She has also edited or coedited several books on social suffering, living and dying in the contemporary world, and the relation between philosophy and anthropology. Das is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Academy of Scientists from Developing Societies, and Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy. She has received honorary doctorates from the University of Chicago, University of Edinburgh, University of Bern, and from Durham University. In 2015, she received the Nessim Habib Prize from the University of Geneva.

• Preface xiIntroduction 11 Wittgenstein and Anthropology: Anticipations 292 A Politics of the Ordinary: Action, Expression, and Everyday Life 583 Ordinary Ethics: Take One 964 Ethics, Self-Knowledge, and Words Not at Home:The Ephemeral and the Durable 1205 Disorders of Desire or Moral Striving? Engaging the Life of the Other 1486 Psychiatric Power, Mental Illness, and the Claim to the Real:Foucault in the Slums of Delhi 1737 The Boundaries of the "We": Cruelty, Responsibility, and Forms of Life 1988 A Child Disappears: Law in the Courts, Law in the Interstices of Everyday Life 2169 Of Mistakes, Errors, and Superstition:Reading Wittgenstein's Remarks on Frazer 24610 Concepts Crisscrossing: Anthropology and Knowledge-Making 27511 The Life of Concepts: In the Vicinity of Dying 307Acknowledgments 333Notes 337References 373Index 403

Veena Das is Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Anthropology and adjunct professor of humanities at the Department of Comparative Thought and Literature at the Johns Hopkins University. Her most recent books are Life and Words: Violence and the Descent into the Ordinary (2007), Affliction: Health, Disease, Poverty (2015), and Four Lectures on Ethics (coauthored, 2015). She has also edited or coedited several books on social suffering, living and dying in the contemporary world, and the relation between philosophy and anthropology. Das is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Academy of Scientists from Developing Societies, and Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy. She has received honorary doctorates from the University of Chicago, University of Edinburgh, University of Bern, and from Durham University. In 2015, she received the Nessim Habib Prize from the University of Geneva.

• Preface xiIntroduction 11 Wittgenstein and Anthropology: Anticipations 292 A Politics of the Ordinary: Action, Expression, and Everyday Life 583 Ordinary Ethics: Take One 964 Ethics, Self-Knowledge, and Words Not at Home:The Ephemeral and the Durable 1205 Disorders of Desire or Moral Striving? Engaging the Life of the Other 1486 Psychiatric Power, Mental Illness, and the Claim to the Real:Foucault in the Slums of Delhi 1737 The Boundaries of the "We": Cruelty, Responsibility, and Forms of Life 1988 A Child Disappears: Law in the Courts, Law in the Interstices of Everyday Life 2169 Of Mistakes, Errors, and Superstition:Reading Wittgenstein's Remarks on Frazer 24610 Concepts Crisscrossing: Anthropology and Knowledge-Making 27511 The Life of Concepts: In the Vicinity of Dying 307Acknowledgments 333Notes 337References 373Index 403