Nobody's People

Hierarchy As Hope in a Society of Thieves

Anastasia Piliavsky (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

300 Seiten

2020 | New edition
Stanford University Press (Verlag)
9781503614208 (ISBN)

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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.

Anastasia Piliavsky is Senior Lecturer in Anthropology and Politics at the India Institute at King's College London. She is the editor of Patronage as Politics in South Asia (2014).

0. Prologue
1. Hierarchy as Hope
2. The Lords of Begun
3. The People Who Were Not There
4. The Perils of Masterless People
5. How to Make and Eat a Goddess in Nine Days
6. Who and Whose
7. The New Lords of Begun
8. Every Man a King

Erscheinungsdatum	09.11.2020
Reihe/Serie	South Asia in Motion
Zusatzinfo	20 figures, 4 maps, and 1 table
Verlagsort	Palo Alto
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie
ISBN-13	9781503614208 / 9781503614208
Zustand	Neuware