Practicing Caste
eBook - PDF

Practicing Caste

On Touching and Not Touching

  1. 256 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Practicing Caste

On Touching and Not Touching

About this book

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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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. PRACTICING CASTE
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. CONTENTS
  6. Foreword
  7. Introduction
  8. 1. Touch and Its Elements and Kinds
  9. 2. Touch—An A Priori Approach
  10. 3. Touch in Its Social and Historical Aspects I
  11. 4. Touch in Its Social and Historical Aspects II
  12. 5. Touch and Texts: Ancient and Modern
  13. 6. (Un)touchability of Things and People
  14. 7. Society, Sociality, Sociability
  15. 8. Recapitulation with Variations
  16. Coda
  17. Notes
  18. Bibliography
  19. Index