Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
South Asia in Motion
ISBN-10
1503614204
ISBN-13
9781503614208
Edition
New
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Imprint
Stanford University Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Nov 24th, 2020
Print length
277 Pages
Weight
460 grams
Dimensions
15.20 x 22.90 x 2.10 cms
Product Classification:
Asian historySocial classesSocial & cultural anthropology, ethnography
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What if we could imagine hierarchy not as a social ill, but as a source of social hope? Taking us into a "caste of thieves" in northern India, Nobody's People depicts hierarchy as a normative idiom through which people imagine better lives and pursue social ambitions. Failing to find a place inside hierarchic relations, the book's heroes are "nobody's people": perceived as worthless, disposable and so open to being murdered with no regret or remorse. Following their journey between death and hope, we learn to perceive vertical, non-equal relations as a social good, not only in rural Rajasthan, but also in much of the world—including settings stridently committed to equality. Challenging egalo-normative commitments, Anastasia Piliavsky asks scholars across the disciplines to recognize hierarchy as a major intellectual resource.
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