Aniket Jaaware

Practicing Caste: On Touching and Not Touching

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Produktbeschreibung

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).

Produktdetails

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• Verlag: Fordham University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 517g
• ISBN-13: 9780823282265
• ISBN-10: 0823282260
• Artikelnr.: 51486012

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

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