Textures of the Ordinary: Doing Anthropology after Wittgenstein (Thinking from Elsewhere)

Textures of the Ordinary shows how life is marked not only by catastrophic events but also by the soft knife of economic deprivation and the repetitive corrosions and routine violence within everyday life itself. As an alternative to normative ethics, this book develops ordinary ethics as attentiveness to the other and as the ability of small acts of care to stand up to horrific violence.

• | Author: Veena Das
• | Publisher: Fordham University Press
• | Publication Date: May 05, 2020
• | Number of Pages: 432 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0823287696
• | ISBN-13: 9780823287697