Practicing Caste: On Touching and Not Touching

Practicing Caste attempts a fundamental break from the tradition of caste studies, showing the limits of the historical, sociological, political, and moral categories through which it has usually been discussed. Engaging with the resources phenomenology, structuralism, and poststructuralism offer to our thinking of the body, Jaaware helps to illuminate the ethical relations that caste entails, especially around its injunctions concerning touching. The resulting insights offer new ways of thinking about sociality that are pertinent not only to India but also to thinking the common on a planetary basis.

Author: Aniket Jaaware
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Published: 12/04/2018
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.84lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.58d
ISBN: 9780823282258

About the Author
Aniket Jaaware (Author)
Aniket Jaaware is Professor of English at Shiv Nadar University. He is the author of Simplifications: An Introduction to Structuralism and Post-structuralim; a volume of short stories, Neon Fish in Dark Water; and several translations into English and Marathi.

Anupama Rao (Foreword By)
Anupama Rao is Associate Professor of History at Barnard College. She is the author of The Caste Question (California, 2009).