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Wording the World

Veena Das and Scenes of Inheritance

Roma Chatterji (Ed.)

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Orient BlackSwan

Year of Publishing

2015

Number of pages

492

ISBN

9788125057338

Format

Hardback

Language

English

Dimensions

180 x 240 mm

Territorial Rights

India,Nepal,Bhutan,Bangladesh,Sri Lanka,Maldives,Pakistan

Catalogues : Anthropology / Ethnography, Culture Studies, Development Studies, Health, Law, Philosophy, Social Sciences, Sociology
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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 responsibility. They search for disciplinary resources to contest the implicit division between those whose pain receives attention and those whose pain is seen as out of sync with the times and hence written out of the historical record.

Another theme is the co-constitution of the event and the everyday, especially in the context of violence. Das’s groundbreaking formulation of the everyday provides a frame for understanding how both violence and healing might grow out of it. Drawing on notions of life and voice and the struggle to write one’s own narrative, the contributors provide rich ethnographies of what it is to inhabit a devastated world.

Ethics as a form of attentiveness to the other, especially in the context of poverty, deprivation, and the corrosion of everyday life, appears in several of the essays. They take up the classic themes of kinship and obligation but give them entirely new meaning.

Finally, anthropology’s affinities with the literary are reflected in a final set of essays that show how forms of knowing in art and in anthropology are related through work with painters, performance artists, and writers.

The book brings together case studies from different parts of the world, from Palestine, Lebanon, Chile, the US and India. It will be of interest not only to anthropologists and sociologists interested in comparative perspectives but also to artists, scholars in art, literary studies and philosophy.

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Roma Chatterji is Professor of Sociology at the Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi.

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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. World, 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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Release Date: 31 Jul 2015; Venue: India International Centre, New Delhi
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