Textures of the Ordinary: Doing Anthropology After Wittgenstein by Veena Das

Textures of the Ordinary: Doing Anthropology After Wittgenstein

Thinking from Elsewhere

Veena Das

432 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history philosophy informative reflective medium-paced

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How might we speak of human life amid violence, deprivation, or disease so intrusive as to put the idea of the human into question? How can scholarship and advocacy address new forms of war or the slow, corrosive violence that belie democracy's pr...

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