States of exception : everyday life and postcolonial identity / Keya Ganguly.

By:

Ganguly, Keya

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2001.Description: xi, 214 p. ; 24 cmISBN:

0816637172 (pbk : alk. paper)
0816637172 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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DDC classification:

305.8914073 GAN 21

Contents:

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

Summary: 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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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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