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Wording the world : Veena Das and scenes of inheritance / edited by Roma Chatterji.

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"The essays in this book explore the critical possibilities that have been opened by Veena Das's work. Taking off from her writing on pain as a call for acknowledgment, several essays explore how social sciences render pain, suffering, and the claims of the other as part of an ethics of re...

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Other Authors: Chatterji, Roma (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Fordham University Press, [2015]
Edition:First edition.
Series:Forms of living.
Subjects:
Suffering > Social aspects.
Events (Philosophy)
Social ethics.
Violence.
Power (Social sciences)
Das, Veena.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Conversations, Generations, Genres: Anthropological Knowing as a Form of Life / Roma Chatterji
  • 2. Ethnography in the Time of Martyrs: History and Pain in Current Anthropological Practice / Sylvain Perdigon
  • 3. Pedagogies of the Clinic: Learning to Live (Again and Again) / Aaron Goodfellow
  • 4. Disembodied Conjugality / Lotte Buch Segal
  • 5. Word, Image and Movement: Translating Pain / Ein Lal and Roma Chatterji
  • 6. Conceptual Vita / Bhrigupati Singh
  • 7. The Child Bears Witness: Menace, Despair and Hope in a Courtroom / Pratiksha Baxi
  • 8. Experiments with Fate: Buddhist Morality and Human Rights in Thailand / Don Selby
  • 9. Communities and Recovered Life: Suffering and Recovery in the Sikh Carnage of 1984 / Yasmeen Arif
  • 10. Sexual Violence, Law and Qualities of Affiliation / Sameena Mulla
  • 11. On Feelings and Finiteness in Everyday Life / Clara Han
  • 12. 'Listening to Voices': Immigrants, Settlers and Citizens at the Ethnic Margins of the State / Sangeeta Chattoo
  • 13. Punjabi Inscriptions of Kinship and Gender: Sayings and Songs / Rita Brara-- 14. In the Event of an Anthropological Thought / Anand Pandian
  • 15. The Ayodhya Dispute: Law's Imagination and the Functions of the Status Quo / Deepak Mehta
  • 16. The Death of Nature in the Era of Global Warming / Naveeda Khan
  • 17. Triste Romantik: Ruminations on an Ethnographic Encounter with Philosophy / Andrew Brandel
  • 18. Making Claims to Tradition: Poetics and Politics in the Works of Young Maithil Painters / Mani Shekhar Singh
  • 19.The Mirror as Frame: Time and Narrative in the Folk Art of Bengal / Roma Chatterji
  • 20. Adjacent Thinking: A Postscript / Veena Das
  • 21. Between Words and Lives: A Thought of the Coming Together of Margins, Violence, and Suffering : An Interview with Veena Das.

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