IT SO HAPPENS THAT FOR MANY YEARS NOW I have been engaged in thinking and writing about violence and asking what kind of work anthropology does in shaping the object we have come to call violence.
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Life and words
violence and the descent into the ordinary
by Veena Das
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History, Politics and government, Social life and customs, Violence, Crimes against, Riots, Suffering, Social conditions, Sikhs, Gandhi, indira, 1917-1984, India, history, India, politics and government, India, social conditions, Political violence, Crimes contre les Sikhs, Émeutes, Histoire, Souffrance, Politique et gouvernement, Conditions sociales, Mœurs et coutumes, SOCIAL SCIENCE, Violence in Society, Anthropology, Cultural, Manners and customs, Alltag, Gewalt, Våld, Sikher, Brott mot, Upplopp, Historia, LidandePlaces
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Table of Contents
Introduction --
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.
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"A Philip E. Lilienthal book"--P. facing t.p.
"Philip E. Lilienthal Asian studies imprint"--T.p. verso.
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