Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 281 pages)
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Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
0520247442
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0520247450
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0520939530
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1429419148
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1601295324
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1282358405
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6612358408
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9780520247444
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9780520247451
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9780520939530
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9781429419147
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9781601295323
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9781282358409
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9786612358401
Serie:
A Philip E. Lilienthal book in Asian studies
Inhalt:
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
Inhalt:
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
Anmerkung:
"Philip E Lilienthal Asian studies imprint."--Title page verso
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"A Philip E. Lilienthal book"--Page [ii]
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-265) and index
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Das, Veena Life and words Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2007
Sprache:
Englisch
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