Wording the World : Veena das and Scenes of Inheritance.

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Conversations, Generations, Genres: Anthropological Knowing as a Form of Life -- 2. Ethnography in the Time of Martyrs: History and Pain in Current Anthropological Practice -- 3. Pedagogies of the Clinic: Learning to Live (Again and Again) -- 4. Disembodied Conjugality -- 5. Word, Image, and Movement: Translating Pain -- 6. Conceptual Vita -- 7. The Child Bears Witness: Menace, Despair, and Hope in a Courtroom -- 8. Experiments with Fate: Buddhist Morality and Human Rights in Thailand -- 9. Communitas and Recovered Life: Suffering and Recovery in the Sikh Carnage of 1984 -- 10. Sexual Violence, Law, and Qualities of Affiliation -- 11. On Feelings and Finiteness in Everyday Life -- 12. "Listening to Voices": Immigrants, Settlers, and Citizens at the Ethnic Margins of the State -- 13. Punjabi Inscriptions of Kinship and Gender: Sayings and Songs -- 14. In the Event of an Anthropological Thought -- 15. The Ayodhya Dispute: Law's Imagination and the Functions of the Status Quo -- 16. The Death of Nature in the Era of Global Warming -- 17. Triste Romantik: Ruminations on an Ethnographic Encounter with Philosophy -- 18. Making Claims to Tradition: Poetics and Politics in the Works of Young Maithil Painters -- 19. The Mirror as Frame: Time and Narrative in the Folk Art of Bengal -- 20. Adjacent Thinking: A Postscript -- 21. Between Words and Lives. A Thought on the Coming Together of Margins, Violence, and Suffering: An Interview with Veena Das -- Notes -- Bibliography -- List of Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

The essays in this book examine how important themes in Veena Das's work have been critically assimilated in the work of a younger generation. Looking at the relation between the event and the everyday, the essays ask how we might trace the picture of thinking in anthropology through ethnography and through artistic, literary and philosophical practice.

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