Textures of the Ordinary: Doing Anthropology after Wittgenstein PDF
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TEXTURES OF THE ORDINARY Thinking from Elsewhere Series editors: Clara Han, Johns Hopkins University Bhrigupati Singh, Brown University International Advisory Board Roma Chatterji, University of Delhi Veena Das, Johns Hopkins University Robert Desjarlais, Sarah Lawrence College Harri Englund, Cambridge University Didier Fassin, Institute for Advanced Study, Prince ton Angela Garcia, Stanford University Junko Kitanaka, Keio University Eduardo Kohn, McGill University Heonik Kwon, Cambridge University Michael Lambek, University of Toronto Deepak Mehta, Ashoka University, Sonipat Amira Mittermaier, University of Toronto Sameena Mulla, Marquette University Young- Gyung Paik, Seoul National Open University Sarah Pinto, Tufts University Michael Puett, Harvard University Fiona Ross, University of Cape Town Lisa Stevenson, McGill University Fordham University Press New York 2020 TEXTURES OF THE ORDINARY Doing Anthropology after Wittgenstein Veena Das Copyright © 2020 Fordham University Press All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means— electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, or any other— except for brief quotations in printed reviews, without the prior permission of the publisher. Fordham University Press has no responsibility for the per sis tence or accuracy of URLs for external or third- party internet websites referred to in this publication and does not guarantee that any con- tent on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate. Fordham University Press also publishes its books in a variety of electronic formats. Some content that appears in print may not be available in electronic books. Visit us online at www . fordhampress . com. Library of Congress Control Number: 2020901894 Printed in the United States of Amer i ca 22 21 20 5 4 3 2 1 First edition For— Stanley Cavell In your writing I am existed. And, connecting generations above and beyond me, For— Nayan, Lucas, Uma, Ayla, Lola, Kiran, and Nathaniel In your gifts and your dadu’s too, I am taken afar and brought back home. CONTENTS Preface ................................. xi Introduction ............................ 1 1 Wittgenstein and Anthropology: Anticipations ........................... 29 2 A Politics of the Ordinary: Action, Expression, and Everyday Life ............. 58 3 Ordinary Ethics: Take One ............... 96 4 Ethics, Self- Knowledge, and Words Not at Home: The Ephemeral and the Durable ............................. 120 5 Disorders of Desire or Moral Striving? Engaging the Life of the Other ............ 148 6 Psychiatric Power, M ental Illness, and the Claim to the Real: Foucault in the Slums of Delhi ................................ 173 7 The Bound aries of the “We”: Cruelty, Responsibility, and Forms of Life .......... 198 8 A Child Dis appears: Law in the Courts, Law in the Interstices of Everyday Life ..... 216
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