Life and Words Violence and the Descent into the Ordinary

Name: Life and Words Violence and the Descent into the Ordinary
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ISBN: 9780520247451

ISBN-10: 0520247450

ISBN-13: 9780520247451

Edition: 2007

Authors: Veena Das, Stanley Cavell

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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 life to which we simply bear witness. Das…

Book details

List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 12/4/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 296
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



Foreword



The Event and the Everyday



The Figure of the Abducted Woman: The Citizen as Sexed



Language and Body: Transactions in the Construction of Pain



The Act of Witnessing: Violence, Gender, and Subjectivity



Boundaries, Violence, and the Work of Time



Thinking of Time and Subjectivity



In the Region of Rumor



The Force of the Local



The Signature of the State: The Paradox of Illegibility



Three Portraits of Grief and Mourning



Revisiting Trauma, Testimony, and Political Community


Notes


Acknowledgments


Index