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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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