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LEADER: 01991cam a22003854a 4500
001 2006003041
003 DLC
005 20080410122755.0
008 060127s2007 cauab b s001 0 eng
010 $a 2006003041
020 $a0520247442 (cloth : alk. paper)
020 $a0520247450 (pbk. : alk. paper)
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC
042 $apcc
043 $aa-ii---
050 00 $aGN635.I4$bD2662 2007
082 00 $a303.60954$222
100 1 $aDas, Veena.
245 10 $aLife and words :$bviolence and the descent into the ordinary /$cVeena Das ; foreword by Stanley Cavell.
260 $aBerkeley :$bUniversity of California Press,$cc2007.
300 $axiv, 281 p. :$bill., maps ;$c24 cm.
500 $a"A Philip E. Lilienthal book"--P. [ii].
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 223-265) and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction -- The figure of the abducted woman : the citizen as sexed -- Language and body : transactions and the construction of pain -- The act of witnessing : violence, gender, and subjectivity -- Boundaries, violence, and the work of time -- Thinking of time and subjectivity -- In the region of rumor -- The force of the local -- The signature of the state : the paradox of illegibility -- Three portraits of grief and mourning -- Revisiting trauma, testimony, and political community.
650 0 $aViolence$zIndia.
651 0 $aIndia$xHistory$yPartition, 1947.
650 0 $aSikhs$xCrimes against$zIndia.
650 0 $aRiots$zIndia$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aSuffering$zIndia.
651 0 $aIndia$xPolitics and government.
651 0 $aIndia$xSocial conditions.
651 0 $aIndia$xSocial life and customs.
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip067/2006003041.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0641/2006003041-d.html
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0735/2006003041-b.html