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Life and Words
Violence and the Descent into the Ordinary
Av Veena Das
Häftad, 2006
304 kr
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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 …
Textures of the Ordinary
Doing Anthropology After Wittgenstein
Av Veena Das
Häftad, 2020
435 kr
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How might we speak of human life amid violence, deprivation, or disease so intrusive as to put the idea of the human into question? How can scholarship and advocacy address new forms of war or the slow, corrosive violence that belie democracy's promise to mitigate human suffering? To Veena Das, the …
Four Lectures on Ethics – Anthropological Perspectives
Av Michael Lambek, Veena Das m. fl.
Häftad, 2015
307 kr
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Anthropology has recently seen a lively interest in the subject of ethics and comparative notions of morality and freedom. This masterclass brings together four of the most eminent anthropologists working in this field-Michael Lambek, Veena Das, Didier Fassin, and Webb Keane-to discuss, via …
Ground Between
Anthropologists Engage Philosophy
Av Veena Das, Michael Jackson m. fl.
Inbunden, 2014
2287 kr
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The guiding inspiration of this book is the attraction and distance that mark the relation between anthropology and philosophy. This theme is explored through encounters between individual anthropologists and particular regions of philosophy. Several of the most basic concepts of the …
Violence and Subjectivity
Av Veena Das, Arthur Kleinman m. fl.
Häftad, 2000
296 kr
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The essays in "Violence and Subjectivity", written by a distinguished international roster of contributors, consider the ways in which violence shapes subjectivity and acts upon people's capacity to engage everyday life. Like its predecessor volume, "Social Suffering", which explored the different …
Handbook of Indian Sociology
Av Veena Das
Häftad, 2006
172 kr
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This handbook makes available to students a comprehensive resource reference in the field of sociology and social anthropology.
Routledge Handbook of South Asian Culture and Society
Av Veena Das
Inbunden, 2024
1993 kr
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The Routledge Handbook of South Asian Culture and Society presents key issues on culture and society in the South Asian context. Written by experts in their respective areas, the Handbook introduces the reader to the field. Emphasizing the significant changes that have been taking place in South …
Social Suffering
Av Arthur Kleinman, Veena Das m. fl.
Häftad, 1997
304 kr
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"Social suffering" takes in the human consequences of war, famine, depression, disease, torture--the whole assemblage of human problems that result from what political, economic, and institutional power does to people--and also human responses to social problems as they are influenced by those …
Remaking a World
Violence, Social Suffering, and Recovery
Av Veena Das, Arthur Kleinman m. fl.
Häftad, 2001
428 kr
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Remaking a World completes a triptych of volumes on social suffering, violence, and recovery. Social Suffering, the first volume, deals with sources and major forms of social adversity, with an emphasis on political violence. The second, Violence and Subjectivity, contains graphic accounts of how …
Living and Dying in the Contemporary World
A Compendium
Inbunden, 2015
1492 kr
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Taking a novel approach to the contradictory impulses of violence and care, illness and healing, this book radically shifts the way we think of the interrelations of institutions and experiences in a globalizing world. Living and Dying in the Contemporary World is not just another reader in medical …
Remaking a World
Violence, Social Suffering, and Recovery
Av Pamela Reynolds, Mamphela Ramphele m. fl.
E-bok, 2001
487 kr
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Remaking a World completes a triptych of volumes on social suffering, violence, and recovery. Social Suffering, the first volume, deals with sources and major forms of social adversity, with an emphasis on political violence. The second, Violence and Subjectivity, contains graphic accounts of how …
Life and Words
Violence and the Descent into the Ordinary
Av Veena Das
E-bok, 2006
254 kr
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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 …
Living and Dying in the Contemporary World
A Compendium
Av Veena Das
E-bok, 2015
2528 kr
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Taking a novel approach to the contradictory impulses of violence and care, illness and healing, this book radically shifts the way we think of the interrelations of institutions and experiences in a globalizing world. Living and Dying in the Contemporary World is not just another reader in medical …
Ground Between
Anthropologists Engage Philosophy
Av Veena Das, Michael Jackson m. fl.
Häftad, 2014
632 kr
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The guiding inspiration of this book is the attraction and distance that mark the relation between anthropology and philosophy. This theme is explored through encounters between individual anthropologists and particular regions of philosophy. Several of the most basic concepts of the …
Ground Between
Anthropologists Engage Philosophy
Av Bhrigupati Singh, Arthur Kleinman m. fl.
E-bok, 2014
651 kr
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The guiding inspiration of this book is the attraction and distance that mark the relation between anthropology and philosophy. This theme is explored through encounters between individual anthropologists and particular regions of philosophy. Several of the most basic concepts of the …
Affliction
Health, Disease, Poverty
Av Veena Das
Inbunden, 2015
1100 kr
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Affliction inaugurates a novel way of understanding the trajectories of health and disease in the context of poverty. Focusing on low-income neighborhoods in Delhi, it stitches together three different sets of issues.First, it examines the different trajectories of illness: What are the …
Affliction
Health, Disease, Poverty
Av Veena Das
Häftad, 2015
354 kr
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Affliction inaugurates a novel way of understanding the trajectories of health and disease in the context of poverty. Focusing on low-income neighborhoods in Delhi, it stitches together three different sets of issues.First, it examines the different trajectories of illness: What are the …
Textures of the Ordinary
Doing Anthropology After Wittgenstein
Av Veena Das
Inbunden, 2020
1756 kr
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How might we speak of human life amid violence, deprivation, or disease so intrusive as to put the idea of the human into question? How can scholarship and advocacy address new forms of war or the slow, corrosive violence that belie democracy's promise to mitigate human suffering? To Veena Das, the …
Words and Worlds
A Lexicon for Dark Times
Inbunden, 2021
1212 kr
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Born in a time of anxiety, Words and Worlds examines some of the disquieting challenges that societies now face. Through an inquiry into a political lexicon of commonsense words, ranging from democracy and revolution to knowledge and authority, from inequality and toleration to war and power, the …
Words and Worlds
A Lexicon for Dark Times
Häftad, 2021
315 kr
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Born in a time of anxiety, Words and Worlds examines some of the disquieting challenges that societies now face. Through an inquiry into a political lexicon of commonsense words, ranging from democracy and revolution to knowledge and authority, from inequality and toleration to war and power, the …
Words and Worlds
A Lexicon for Dark Times
E-bok, 2021
462 kr
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Born in a time of anxiety, Words and Worlds examines some of the disquieting challenges that societies now face. Through an inquiry into a political lexicon of commonsense words, ranging from democracy and revolution to knowledge and authority , from inequality and toleration to war and power , the …
Matter of Detail
Anthropology, Philosophy, and Aesthetics
Av Andrew Brandel, Veena Das m. fl.
E-bok, 2025
701 kr
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A Matter of Detail inspires new ways of thinking about detail by bringing anthropology, philosophy, art history, and aesthetics into direct conversation. Co-editors Brandel, Das, Laugier, and Pitrou challenge a long-standing assumption that the history of detail begins with European modernity and …
Matter of Detail
Anthropology, Philosophy, and Aesthetics
Av Andrew Brandel, Veena Das m. fl.
Inbunden, 2025
580 kr
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A Matter of Detail inspires new ways of thinking about detail by bringing anthropology, philosophy, art history, and aesthetics into direct conversation. Co-editors Brandel, Das, Laugier, and Pitrou challenge a long-standing assumption that the history of detail begins with European modernity and …
Slum Acts
Av Veena Das
Inbunden, 2022
638 kr
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This book examines the ways in which knowledge that is inordinate, excessive, and overwhelming comes to mark everyday life in low-income, poor neighborhoods in Delhi with crumbling infrastructures and pervasive violence. Based on long-term ethnography in these spaces, this book provides a detailed …
Slum Acts
Av Veena Das
Häftad, 2022
217 kr
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This book examines the ways in which knowledge that is inordinate, excessive, and overwhelming comes to mark everyday life in low-income, poor neighborhoods in Delhi with crumbling infrastructures and pervasive violence. Based on long-term ethnography in these spaces, this book provides a detailed …
Slum Acts
Av Veena Das
E-bok, 2022
252 kr
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This book examines the ways in which knowledge that is inordinate, excessive, and overwhelming comes to mark everyday life in low-income, poor neighborhoods in Delhi with crumbling infrastructures and pervasive violence. Based on long-term ethnography in these spaces, this book provides a detailed …
Anthropology in the Margins of the State
Av Veena Das
Häftad, 2004
519 kr
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The very form and reach of the modern state are changing radically under the pressure of globalization. Featuring nine of the leading scholars in the field, this innovative exploration of these transformations develops an ethnographic methodology and theoretical apparatus to assess perceptions of …
Violencia, cuerpo y lenguaje
E-bok, 2012
40 kr
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Compilación de cuatro ensayos en los que la autora cuestiona de manera crítica y rigurosa la pureza de los conceptos antropológicos y sociológicos en torno a la violencia y lenguaje. Se incluyen los artículos: "Voces de niños", "Lenguaje y cuerpo", "Transacciones en la construcción del dolor", …
Conflicted Democracies and Gendered Violence – The Right to Heal: Internal Conflict and Social Upheaval in India
Av Angana P. Chatterji, Shashi Buluswar m. fl.
Inbunden, 2016
392 kr
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Conflicted Democracies and Gendered Violence elucidates the centrality of political and foundational violence in the governance of conflicted democracies in the postcolony, calling attention to the urgent need for transformation. Spectacular and quotidian gendered and sexualized violence by states …
Anti–Witch
Av Jeanne Favret–saada, Matthew Carey m. fl.
Häftad, 2015
222 kr
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Jeanne Favret-Saada is arguably one of France's most brilliant anthropologists, and The Anti-Witch is nothing less than a masterpiece. A synthesis of ethnographic theory and psychoanalytic revelation, where the line between researcher and subject is blurred - if not erased - The Anti-Witch develops …
