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  • Ayya's Accounts

    A Ledger of Hope in Modern India

    by Anand Pandian, M. P. Mariappan, Veena Das ...
    "An absorbing exploration of one man's life" —as an orphan, refugee, shopkeeper, and grandfather—through a century of upheaval in India ( Library Journal).Born in colonial India into a despised caste of former tree climbers, Ayya lost his mother as a child and came of age in a small town in lowland Burma. Forced to flee at the outbreak of World War II, he made a treacherous 1,700-mile journey by ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Textures of the Ordinary

    Doing Anthropology after Wittgenstein

    by Veena Das ...
    Series series Thinking from Elsewhere
    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 answers to these question lie not in foundational ideas about human nature but in a close attention ... Read more

    $38.69 USD

  • Mitra-Varuna

    An Essay on Two Indo-European Representations of Sovereignty

    by Georges Dumézil, Veena Das ...
    Translated by Derek Coltman ...
    A classic text that develops one prong of Dumézil’s tripartite hypothesis of Indo-European tribes: the sacred sovereign.Georges Dumézil’s fascination with the myths and histories of India, Rome, Scandinavia, and the Celts yielded an idea that became his most influential scholarly legacy: the tripartite hypothesis, which divides Indo-European societal functions into three classes: the sacred ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • A Matter of Detail

    Anthropology, Philosophy, and Aesthetics

    by Andrew Brandel, Veena Das, Sandra Laugier, Perig Pitrou ...
    Series series Anthropological Horizons
    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 follows a teleological course from an object of scorn to a sign of the good. In its place, they offer ... Read more

    $46.79 USD

  • The Anti-Witch

    by Jeanne Favret-Saada ...
    Translated by Matthew Carey ...
    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 the contours of an anthropology of therapy, while deeply engaging with what it means to be caught in the ... Read more

    $13.09 USD

  • Living in Death

    Genocide and Its Functionaries

    by Richard Rechtman ...
    Translated by Lindsay Turner ...
    Series series Thinking from Elsewhere
    Winner, Prix Littéraire Paris-Liège 2021Winner, French Voices Award for Excellence in Publication and TranslationWhen we speak of mass killers, we may speak of radicalized ideologues, mediocrities who only obey orders, or bloodthirsty monsters. Who are these men who kill on a mass scale? What is their consciousness? Do they not feel horror or compassion?Richard Rechtman’s Living in Death offers ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • Slum Acts

    by Veena Das ...
    Series series After the Postcolonial
    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 analysis of the institutions of the state, particularly of policing and law in India. It argues that ... Read more

    $16.00 USD

  • Words and Worlds

    A Lexicon for Dark Times

    Edited by Veena Das, Didier Fassin ...
    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 contributors to this book trouble the self-evidence of these terms, bringing into view the hidden ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Life and Words

    Violence and the Descent into the Ordinary

    by Veena Das ...
    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 ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

  • The Ground Between

    Anthropologists Engage Philosophy

    Edited by Veena Das, Arthur Kleinman, Bhrigupati Singh, Michael Jackson ...
    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 discipline—including notions of ethics, politics, temporality, self and other, and the nature of human life—are ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Four Lectures on Ethics

    Anthropological Perspectives

    by Michael Lambek, Veena Das, Didier Fassin, Webb Keane ...
    Series series Masterclass
    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 lectures and responses, important topics facing anthropological ethics and the theoretical debates that ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • Affliction

    Health, Disease, Poverty

    by Veena Das ...
    Series series Forms of Living
    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 circumstances under which illness is absorbed within the normal and when does it exceed the normal—putting ... Read more

    $28.79 USD