Practicing Caste
On Touching and not Touching
Published on 4. December 2018
256 pages
978-0-8232-8228-9 (ISBN)
Description
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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New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
NY
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
New edition
File size
1,88 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-8232-8228-9 (9780823282289)
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Persons
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).
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).
Content
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
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
