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 |
Table of Contents:
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Touch and its elements and kinds
- Touch, an a priori approach
- Touch in its social and historical aspects I
- Touch in its social and historical aspects II
- Touch and texts: ancient and modern
- (Un)touchability of things and people
- Sociality and sociability
- Recapitulation with variations