{"title":"Veena Das","description":"\u003cp\u003eVeena Das explores the intersections of social, cultural, and personal narratives, offering profound insights into human experiences and societal structures. Her works, such as \u003cem\u003eLife and Words\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eSlum Acts\u003c\/em\u003e, invite readers to engage with complex themes through thoughtful analysis and compelling storytelling.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRooted in the realm of education and personal development, Das's writings challenge conventional perspectives and encourage a deeper understanding of community, identity, and resilience. Her books provide a reflective space for readers seeking to broaden their awareness of social dynamics and individual transformation.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-antiwitch-by-jeanne-favretsaada-9780990505044","title":"The Anti–Witch","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJeanne Favret-Saada is arguably one of France’s most brilliant anthropologists, and \u003ci\u003eThe Anti-Witch\u003c\/i\u003e is nothing less than a masterpiece. A synthesis of ethnographic theory and psychoanalytic revelation, where the line between researcher and subject is blurred—if not erased—\u003ci\u003eThe Anti-Witch\u003c\/i\u003e develops the contours of an anthropology of therapy, while deeply engaging with what it means to be caught in the logic of witchcraft.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThrough an intimate and provocative sharing of the ethnographic voice with Madame Flora, a “dewitcher,” Favret-Saada delivers a critical challenge to some of anthropology’s fundamental concepts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSure to be of interest to practitioners of psychoanalysis as well as to anthropologists, \u003ci\u003eThe Anti-Witch\u003c\/i\u003e will bring a new generation of scholars into conversation with the work of a truly innovative thinker.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46868823802092,"sku":"9780990505044","price":47.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/7d9b59d2b6a9dce077f850697fe78a88.jpg?v=1759789533"},{"product_id":"slum-acts-by-veena-das-9781509537860","title":"Slum Acts","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis book examines the ways in which knowledge that is inordinate, excessive, and overwhelming comes to mark everyday life in low-income, poor neighbourhoods in Delhi with crumbling infrastructures and pervasive violence. Based on long-term ethnography in these spaces, this book provides a detailed analysis of the institutions of the state, particularly of policing and law in India.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt argues that catastrophic events at the national level and the techniques of governance through which they are handled secrete forms of knowing that get embedded into the nooks and crannies of everyday life, eroding trust, sowing suspicions, and leading to an exhaustion of capacity for care. Yet the paths to survival honed within these spaces generate critique that compels us to ask how punishment and torture become routinised in democracies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFollowing the paths of those who struggle with these questions in these neighbourhoods, the book finds that deep philosophical questions, such as the inhuman as a possibility of the human rather than its boundary, arise in the weaves of these lives and are experienced as a dimension of the social.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSlum Acts\u003c\/em\u003e will be of great interest to students and scholars in anthropology and throughout the social sciences and humanities.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47428001202412,"sku":"9781509537860","price":35.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781509537860.jpg?v=1774767253"},{"product_id":"life-and-words-by-veena-das-9780520247451","title":"Life and Words","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 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 Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn a major departure from much anthropological inquiry, Das asks how this violence has entered \"the recesses of the ordinary\" instead of viewing it as an interruption of life to which we simply bear witness. Das engages with anthropological work on collective violence, rumour, sectarian conflict, new kinship, and state and bureaucracy as she embarks on a wide-ranging exploration of the relations among violence, gender, and subjectivity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWeaving anthropological and philosophical reflections on the ordinary into her analysis, Das points toward a new way of interpreting violence in societies and cultures around the globe. The book will be indispensable reading across disciplinary boundaries as we strive to better understand violence, especially as it is perpetrated against women.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLife and Words\u003c\/em\u003e will doubtlessly make a lasting impact on anthropological studies and our comprehension of the everyday manifestations of violence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47995476181228,"sku":"9780520247451","price":66.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780520247451-life-and-words.jpg?v=1784896514"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/collections\/veena-das.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}