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Paperback Life and Words: Violence and the Descent Into the Ordinary Book

ISBN: 0520247450

ISBN13: 9780520247451

Life and Words: Violence and the Descent Into the Ordinary

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In this powerful, compassionate work, one of anthropology's most distinguished ethnographers weaves together rich fieldwork with a compelling critical analysis in a book that will surely make a signal contribution to contemporary thinking about violence and how it affects everyday life. Veena Das examines case studies including the extreme violence of the Partition of India in 1947 and the massacre of Sikhs in 1984 after the assassination of then...

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