Ulrich Demmer

Towards Another Reason

Identity Politics and Ethical Worlds in South India

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Produktbeschreibung

Locating the politics of ethical collective identities in postcolonial South India, this work explores the ways in which different cultural communities forge their self-understandings in terms of practical reason: with respect to ideas of what a good life truly is and how we should live ethically in practice. Drawing upon more than ten years of ethnographic fieldwork, the author discusses the ethical concepts, practices, and politics of the Adivasi community of J¿nu Küumba, the state of Tamil Nadu, and the recently established religious discourse of the deity Sanesvara.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 417
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Februar 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 223mm x 148mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 513g
• ISBN-13: 9780199466818
• ISBN-10: 0199466815
• Artikelnr.: 47866792

Autorenporträt

Ulrich Demmer is Research Professor at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich, Germany.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Map, Figures, and Images
Acknowledgements
Note on Transliteration
Introduction
one Persons and Performances
Two Indigenous Ethical Horizons: J¿nu Küumba Adivasi Views
Three The Healing Ritual: Rhetoric and Poiesis of Ethics
Four The Death Ritual: Rhetoric and Poiesis of Ethics
Five Tamil Modernity, the Postcolonial State, and the Good Modern Life
Six Governmentality, Adivasi Infrapolitics, and Everyday Life
Seven At Sanesvara's Shrine: Searching for a New Ethical Code
Eight Towards Another Reason
Appendix
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
About the Author