Practicing caste on touching and not touching
This work attempts a fundamental break from the tradition of caste studies, using a version of phenomenology, structuralism, and post-structuralism to give a radical description of touchability and untouchability in terms of a rhetoric and semantics of touch. Written in minimalist style, it attempts...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY
Fordham University Press
2019, 2019©2019
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| Series: | Commonalities
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| Collection: | JSTOR Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | This work attempts a fundamental break from the tradition of caste studies, using a version of phenomenology, structuralism, and post-structuralism to give a radical description of touchability and untouchability in terms of a rhetoric and semantics of touch. Written in minimalist style, it attempts to see if regulations on touchability can be seen as generalizable, and not seen merely as an Indian phenomenon. It also argues that, upon examination, several traditional sociological, political, and moral categories do not prove to be useful for understanding touchability and untouchability |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| ISBN: | 0823282287 9780823282289 |