| Description |
1 online resource (xxxix, 252 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
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| Series |
South Asia in motion
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South Asia in motion.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Hierarchy as hope -- The lords of begun -- The people who were not there -- The perils of masterless people -- How to make and eat a goddess in nine days -- Who and whose -- The new lords of Begun -- Every man a king. |
| Summary |
"What if we could imagine hierarchy not as a social ill, but as a source of social creativity and hope? In Nobody's People, Anastasia Piliavsky takes us into the world of thieves, the Kanjars, in the Indian state of Rajasthan. Introducing us to wily policemen, quirky aristocrats, and resourceful goddesses, she shows that locally hierarchy is a potent normative idiom through which they imagine better lives and pursue social ambitions. A community once patronized secretly by aristocrats and now precariously in the service of farmers and the police, Kanjars try and fail repeatedly to find a way into hierarchic relations rather than out of them. In a world where to be is to belong, they are nobody's people, who can be murdered with no moral restraint or remorse. Following Kanjars on their journey between death and hope, Piliavsky invites readers to see in hierarchy - not inequality - a viable ethical frame instead of an archaic system of subjugation. Doing so, she suggests, will help us understand not only rural Rajasthan, but also much of the world, including settings stridently committed to equality. Challenging egalo-normative commitments, Piliavsky asks scholars across the disciplines to consider hierarchy as a major intellectual resource"-- Provided by publisher |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Kanjar (South Asian people) -- India -- Rajasthan -- Social conditions.
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Kanjar (South Asian people) |
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India -- Rajasthan. |
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Social conditions. |
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Thieves -- India -- Rajasthan -- Social conditions.
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Thieves. |
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Social status -- India -- Rajasthan.
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Social status. |
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Rajasthan (India) -- Rural conditions.
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Rural conditions. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Piliavsky, Anastasia, 1981- Nobody's people. Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2020 9781503604643 (DLC) 2020025600 |
| ISBN |
9781503614215 (electronic book) |
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1503614212 (electronic book) |
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9781503604643 (hardcover) |
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9781503614208 (paperback) |
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