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100	1		_aDas, Veena, _eauthor. _9278587
245	1	0	_aLife and words : _bviolence and the descent into the ordinary / _cVeena Das ; foreword by Stanley Cavell.
264		1	_aBerkeley : _bUniversity of California Press, _c[2007]
264		4	_c©2007
300			_axiv, 281 pages : _billustrations, maps ; _c24 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
500			_a"Philip E. Lilienthal Asian studies imprint.".
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 223-265) and index.
505	0	0	_g1. _tThe event and the everyday -- _g2. _tThe figure of the abducted woman : the citizen as sexed -- _g3. _tLanguage and body : transactions in the construction of pain -- _g4. _tThe act of witnessing : violence, gender, and subjectivity -- _g5. _tBoundaries, violence, and the work of time -- _g6. _tThinking of time and subjectivity -- _g7. _tIn the region of rumor -- _g8. _tThe force of the local -- _g9. _tThe signature of the state : the paradox of illegibility -- _g10. _tThree portraits of grief and mourning -- _g11. _tRevisiting trauma, testimony, and political community.
520			_a"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 engages with anthropological work on collective violence, rumor, sectarian conflict, new kinship, and state and bureaucracy as she embarks on a wide-ranging exploration of the relations among violence, gender, and subjectivity. Weaving anthropological and philosophical reflections on the ordinary into her analysis, Das points toward a new way of interpreting violence in societies and cultures around the globe. The book will be indispensable reading across disciplinary boundaries as we strive to better understand violence, especially as it is perpetrated against women."--Publisher description.
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