Practicing Caste: On Touching and Not Touching (Commonalities)

By: Aniket Jaaware and Anupama Rao

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Synopsis: Practicing Caste attempts a fundamental break from the tradition of caste studies, showing the limits of the historical, sociological, political, and moral categories through which it has usually been discussed. Engaging with the resources that phenomenology, structuralism, and poststructuralism offer to our thinking of the body, Jaaware helps to illuminate the ethical relations that caste entails, especially around its injunctions concerning touching. The resulting insights offer new ways of thinking about sociality that are pertinent not only to India but also to thinking the common on a planetary basis.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9780823282272
Related ISBNs:: 9780823282265
Publisher:: Fordham University Press
Date of Addition:: 12/04/18
Copyrighted By:: Fordham University Press
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: History, Nonfiction, Religion and Spirituality, Philosophy, Politics and Government, Sociology
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