TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ganguly,Keya
TI  - States of exception: everyday life and postcolonial identity 
SN  - 0816637172 (pbk : alk. paper)
U1  - 305.8914073 GAN 21
PY  - 2001///
CY  - Minneapolis
PB  - University of Minnesota Press
KW  - East Indian Americans
KW  - Ethnic identity
KW  - Psychology
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - Identity (Philosophical concept)
KW  - Memory (Philosophy)
KW  - Postcolonialism
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - United States
KW  - Psychological aspects
KW  - Ethnic relations
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
ER  -