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Textures of the Ordinary shows how life is marked not only by catastrophic events but also by the soft knife of economic deprivation and the repetitive corrosions and routine violence within everyday life itself. As an alternative to normative ethics, this book develops ordinary ethics as attentiveness to the other and as the ability of small acts of care to stand up to horrific violence.

"Affliction: Health, Disease, Poverty inaugurates a novel way of understanding the trajectories of health and disease in the context of poverty. It traces the unfolding of illness within families, local communities, neighborhood markets and in occult worlds. Privileging the experience of people living in these neighborhoods it asks how can global health be made to take this experience into account rather than escape from it?"--Provided by publisher

"Affliction: Health, Disease, Poverty inaugurates a novel way of understanding the trajectories of health and disease in the context of poverty. It traces the unfolding of illness within families, local communities, neighborhood markets and in occult worlds. Privileging the experience of people living in these neighborhoods it asks how can global health be made to take this experience into account rather than escape from it?"--Provided by publisher

Sociological analysis of Hindu caste & ritual has primarily been confined to the empirical study of local communities. In this work the author adds a new dimension by basing her data on an examination of selected myths in Puranic & Sutra literature, in particular the Dharmaranya Purana & the Grihya Sutra.

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

Violence-prone area or international transition? adding the role of outsiders in Balkan violence / Susan L. Woodward -- Violence and vision: the prosthetics and aesthetics of terror / Allen Feldman -- Circumcision, body, masculinity: the ritual wound and collective violence / Deepak Mehta -- Teach me how to be a man: an exploration of the definition of masculinity / Mamphela Ramphele -- On not becoming a "terrorist": problems of memory, agency, and community in Sri Lankan conflict / Jonathan Spencer -- The ground of all making: state violence, the family, and political activists / Pamela Reynolds -- Violence, suffering, Amman: the work of oracles in Sri Lanka's eastern war zone / Patricia Lawrence -- The act of witnessing: violence, poisonous knowledge, and subjectivity / Veena Das -- The violences of everyday life: the multiple forms and dynamics of social violence / Arthur Kleinman -- Body and space in a time of crisis: sterilization and resettlement during the emergency in Delhi / Emma Tarlo -- The quest for human organs and the violence of zeal / Margaret Lock -- Mayan multiculturalism and the violence of memories / Kay B. Warren -- Reconciliation and memory in postwar Nigeria / Murray Last -- Mood, moment, and mind / E. Valentine Daniel