Practicing Caste

On Touching and Not Touching

Aniket Jaaware (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

256 Seiten

2018
Fordham University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8232-8226-5 (ISBN)

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Practicing Caste attempts a break from the tradition of caste studies, using versions of phenomenology, structuralism and post-structuralism; and gives a description of touchability and untouchability in terms of a rhetoric and semantics of touch.

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.

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

Foreword by Anupama Rao vii

Introduction 1

1. Touch and Its Elements and Kinds 11

2. Touch—An A Priori Approach 37

3. Touch in Its Social and Historical Aspects I 61

4. Touch in Its Social and Historical Aspects II 93

5. Touch and Texts: Ancient and Modern 119

6. (Un)touchability of Things and People 148

7. Society, Sociality, Sociability 170

8. Recapitulation with Variations 190

Coda 205

Notes 209

Bibliography 223

Index 233

Erscheinungsdatum	19.11.2018
Reihe/Serie	Commonalities
Vorwort	Anupama Rao
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Hinduismus
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie
ISBN-10	0-8232-8226-0 / 0823282260
ISBN-13	978-0-8232-8226-5 / 9780823282265
Zustand	Neuware