Title Life and words : violence and the descent into the ordinary / Veena Das ; foreword by Stanley Cavell

Published Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 281 pages) : maps Series A Philip E. Lilienthal book in Asian studies Philip E. Lilienthal Asian studies imprint Contents Introduction -- The event and the everyday -- The figure of the abducted woman : the citizen as sexed -- Language and body : transactions and 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 Summary 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 ord Notes "A Philip E. Lilienthal book"--Page [ii] "Philip E Lilienthal Asian studies imprint."--Title page verso Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-265) and index Notes Print version record Subject Violence -- India Sikhs -- Crimes against -- India Riots -- India -- History -- 20th century Suffering -- India SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Violence in Society. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural. Manners and customs Politics and government Riots Social conditions Suffering Violence Alltag Gewalt Våld -- Indien. Sikher -- brott mot -- Indien. Upplopp -- historia -- Indien -- 1900-talet. Lidande -- Indien. SUBJECT India -- History -- Partition, 1947. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh97003291 India -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85064936 India -- Social conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85064951 India -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh86007592 Subject India Indien Indien -- historia -- 1947- Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2006003041 ISBN 9780520939530 0520939530 1429419148 9781429419147 1601295324 9781601295323 1282358405 9781282358409 9786612358401 6612358408 0520247442 9780520247444 0520247450 9780520247451

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