| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 281 pages) : maps. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
A Philip E. Lilienthal book in Asian studies
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| Note |
"A Philip E. Lilienthal book"--Page [ii]. |
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"Philip E Lilienthal Asian studies imprint."--Title page verso. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-265) and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Partition of India (India : 1947) |
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Violence -- India.
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Violence. |
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India. |
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India -- History -- Partition, 1947.
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Sikhs -- Crimes against -- India.
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Sikhs. |
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Riots -- India -- History -- 20th century.
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Riots. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Suffering -- India.
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Suffering. |
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India -- Politics and government.
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Politics and government. |
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India -- Social conditions.
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Social conditions. |
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India -- Social life and customs.
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Manners and customs. |
| Chronological Term |
1900 - 1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Das, Veena. Life and words. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2007 0520247442 0520247450 (DLC) 2006003041 (OCoLC)63660246 |
| ISBN |
9780520939530 (electronic book) |
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0520939530 (electronic book) |
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1429419148 (electronic book) |
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9781429419147 (electronic book) |
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1601295324 (electronic book) |
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9781601295323 (electronic book) |
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1282358405 |
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9781282358409 |
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9786612358401 (electronic book) |
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6612358408 (electronic book) |
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0520247442 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0520247450 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9780520247444 (hardback) |
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9780520247451 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
| Standard No. |
X1868810 |
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