States of exception :
Ganguly, Keya.
States of exception : everyday life and postcolonial identity / Keya Ganguly. - Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2001. - xi, 214 p. ; 24 cm.
Gratis.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-209) and index.
Inroduction: Gunga Din and other anomalies --
Writing the field --
The antinomies of everyday life --
Personal memory and the contradictions of selfhood --
Food and the habitus --
The dialectics of ethnic spectatorship
A philosophical anthropology of everyday experience, this book is also a deeply informed and thought-provoking reflection on the work of cultural critique. States of Exception looks into a community of immigrants from India living in southern New Jersey--a group to whom the author, as a daughter of two of its members, enjoyed unprecedented access.
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East Indian Americans--Ethnic identity.
East Indian Americans--Psychology.
East Indian Americans--Social life and customs.
Identity (Philosophical concept)
Memory (Philosophy)
Postcolonialism--Social aspects--United States.
Postcolonialism--Psychological aspects.--United States
United States--Ethnic relations.
305.8914073 GAN
States of exception : everyday life and postcolonial identity / Keya Ganguly. - Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2001. - xi, 214 p. ; 24 cm.
Gratis.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-209) and index.
Inroduction: Gunga Din and other anomalies --
Writing the field --
The antinomies of everyday life --
Personal memory and the contradictions of selfhood --
Food and the habitus --
The dialectics of ethnic spectatorship
A philosophical anthropology of everyday experience, this book is also a deeply informed and thought-provoking reflection on the work of cultural critique. States of Exception looks into a community of immigrants from India living in southern New Jersey--a group to whom the author, as a daughter of two of its members, enjoyed unprecedented access.
0816637172 (pbk : alk. paper) 0816637172 (pbk. : alk. paper)
00010327
East Indian Americans--Ethnic identity.
East Indian Americans--Psychology.
East Indian Americans--Social life and customs.
Identity (Philosophical concept)
Memory (Philosophy)
Postcolonialism--Social aspects--United States.
Postcolonialism--Psychological aspects.--United States
United States--Ethnic relations.
305.8914073 GAN