Nobody's People : Hierarchy as Hope in a Society of Thieves Hardback
by Anastasia Piliavsky
Part of the South Asia in Motion series
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What if we could imagine hierarchy not as a social ill, but as a source of social hope?
Taking us into a "caste of thieves" in northern India, Nobody's People depicts hierarchy as a normative idiom through which people imagine better lives and pursue social ambitions.
Failing to find a place inside hierarchic relations, the book's heroes are "nobody's people": perceived as worthless, disposable and so open to being murdered with no regret or remorse.
Following their journey between death and hope, we learn to perceive vertical, non-equal relations as a social good, not only in rural Rajasthan, but also in much of the world-including settings stridently committed to equality.
Challenging egalo-normative commitments, Anastasia Piliavsky asks scholars across the disciplines to recognize hierarchy as a major intellectual resource.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:300 pages
- Publisher:Stanford University Press
- Publication Date:24/11/2020
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- ISBN:9781503604643
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:300 pages
- Publisher:Stanford University Press
- Publication Date:24/11/2020
- Category:
- ISBN:9781503604643
