Nobody's People (eBook)

Hierarchy as Hope in a Society of Thieves

Anastasia Piliavsky (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2020
300 Seiten
Stanford University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5036-1421-5 (ISBN)

Infos

What if we could imagine hierarchy not as a social ill, but as a source of social hope? Taking us into a "e;caste of thieves"e; in northern India, Nobody's People depicts hierarchy as a normative idiom through which people imagine better lives and pursue social ambitions. Failing to find a place inside hierarchic relations, the book's heroes are "e;nobody's people"e;: perceived as worthless, disposable and so open to being murdered with no regret or remorse. Following their journey between death and hope, we learn to perceive vertical, non-equal relations as a social good, not only in rural Rajasthan, but also in much of the world-including settings stridently committed to equality. Challenging egalo-normative commitments, Anastasia Piliavsky asks scholars across the disciplines to recognize hierarchy as a major intellectual resource.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 24.11.2020
• Reihe/Serie: South Asia in Motion
• Reihe/Serie: South Asia in Motion
• Zusatzinfo: 20 figures, 4 maps, and 1 table
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie
• Schlagworte: caste theory • Criminal tribes • egalitarianism • Hierarchy Theory • Hope • Patronage • Personhood • policing • Theft • Value
• ISBN-10: 1-5036-1421-2 / 1503614212
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5036-1421-5 / 9781503614215