Jaaware Practicing Caste

On Touching and Not Touching
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-0-8232-8228-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 256 Seiten

Reihe: Commonalities

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jaaware, Aniket

Weitere Mitwirkende

Rao, Anupama

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Hinduismus Hinduismus: Leben & Praxis, Soziale Aspekte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Phänomenologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Gesellschaftstheorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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