| Description |
1 online resource (257 pages) |
| Series |
Commonalities Ser |
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Commonalities Ser
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| Contents |
Cover; PRACTICING CASTE; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; Foreword; Introduction; 1. Touch and Its Elements and Kinds; 2. Touch-An A Priori Approach; 3. Touch in Its Social and Historical Aspects I; 4. Touch in Its Social and Historical Aspects II; 5. Touch and Texts: Ancient and Modern; 6. (Un)touchability of Things and People; 7. Society, Sociality, Sociability; 8. Recapitulation with Variations; Coda; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
Practicing Caste attempts a break from the tradition of caste studies, using versions of phenomenology, structuralism and post-structuralism; and gives a description of touchability and untouchability in terms of a rhetoric and semantics of touch |
| Analysis |
Caste Studies |
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Dalit Studies |
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Semantics and Rhetoric of Touch |
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South Asian Studies |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Caste.
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Touch.
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castes.
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touch.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Social Theory.
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Caste
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Touch
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Rao, Anupama
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| ISBN |
9780823282289 |
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0823282287 |
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0823282279 |
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9780823282272 |
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