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Practicing Caste: On Touching and Not Touching (Commonalities) - Hardcover

Jaaware, Aniket

 
9780823282265: Practicing Caste: On Touching and Not Touching (Commonalities)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0823282260 ISBN 13: 9780823282265
Publisher: Fordham University Press, 2018

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 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.

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About the Authors

Aniket Jaaware is Professor of English at Shiv Nadar University. He is the author of Simplifications: An Introduction to Structuralism and Post-structuralim; a volume of short stories, Neon Fish in Dark Water; and several translations into English and Marathi.

Anupama Rao is Associate Professor of History at Barnard College. She is the author of The Caste Question (California, 2009).

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Publisher
Fordham University Press
Publication date
2018
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0823282260
ISBN 13 
9780823282265
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
256