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Practicing Caste attempts a break from the tradition of caste studies, using versions of phenomenology, structuralism and post-structuralism; and gives a description of touchability and untouchability in terms of a rhetoric and semantics of touch.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Anupama Rao vii
Introduction 1
1. Touch and Its Elements and Kinds 11
2. Touch—An A Priori Approach 37
3. Touch in Its Social and Historical Aspects I 61
4. Touch in Its Social and Historical Aspects II 93
5. Touch and Texts: Ancient and Modern 119
6. (Un)touchability of Things and People 148
7. Society, Sociality, Sociability 170
8. Recapitulation with Variations 190
Coda 205
Notes 209
Bibliography 223
Index 233

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    Publisher: Fordham University Press
    Publication Date: 04/12/2018
    ISBN13: 9780823282265, 978-0823282265
    ISBN10: 0823282260
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    Phenomenology and Existentialism Hindu life and practice

    Description

    Book Synopsis
    Practicing Caste attempts a break from the tradition of caste studies, using versions of phenomenology, structuralism and post-structuralism; and gives a description of touchability and untouchability in terms of a rhetoric and semantics of touch.

    Table of Contents

    Foreword by Anupama Rao vii
    Introduction 1
    1. Touch and Its Elements and Kinds 11
    2. Touch—An A Priori Approach 37
    3. Touch in Its Social and Historical Aspects I 61
    4. Touch in Its Social and Historical Aspects II 93
    5. Touch and Texts: Ancient and Modern 119
    6. (Un)touchability of Things and People 148
    7. Society, Sociality, Sociability 170
    8. Recapitulation with Variations 190
    Coda 205
    Notes 209
    Bibliography 223
    Index 233

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