Exorbitance

A Speculative Ethnography of Inheritance

Deborah A. Thomas (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

272 Seiten

2025
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4780-2923-6 (ISBN)

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In Exorbitance, Deborah A. Thomas calls for new approaches to political sovereignty grounded in the embodied forms of autonomy and relation created in daily life. Rather than rooting sovereignty in the violence of the state and its institutions, Thomas conceives of sovereignty as the embodied refusal of law and dominion. Drawing on the insights of Caribbeanist thought and studies of Jamaican social, political, and spiritual life, Thomas proposes an exorbitant sovereignty enacted through a phenomenological notion of inheritance. Such a sovereignty emerges from alternative genealogies of governance, community, and ceremony that exceed Enlightenment expectations of political life. Thomas contends that the articulations of exorbitant sovereignty are emergent, ephemeral, and ultimately, relational. By outlining the perils and promises of our inheritance of colonial logics and the tools to refuse them, Thomas models a collaborative and collective anthropology oriented toward improvisational experimentation rather than ethnographic extraction.

Deborah A. Thomas is R. Jean Brownlee Professor of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania and author of Political Life in the Wake of the Plantation: Sovereignty, Witnessing, Repair, also published by Duke University Press.

Foreword / Llerena Guiu Searle and Kathryn Mariner ix
Introduction. Sovereign-ing: The Body as Method 1
1. Traces 27
2. Testimonies 78
3. Embodiments 161
Coda. The Labor of Sovereignty 198
Acknowledgments 205
Notes 209
Bibliography 223
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	17.10.2025
Reihe/Serie	Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures
Verlagsort	North Carolina
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	572 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-4780-2923-4 / 1478029234
ISBN-13	978-1-4780-2923-6 / 9781478029236
Zustand	Neuware