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Nobody's People: Hierarchy as Hope in a Society of Thieves

Nobody's People: Hierarchy as Hope in a Society of Thieves

Piliavsky, Anastasia

Paperback

Series: South Asia in Motion

AnthropologyIndian & South Asian HistoryPoverty & Social Work

ISBN10: 1503614204
ISBN13: 9781503614208
Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr
Published: Nov 24 2020
Pages: 300
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.90 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

What if we could imagine hierarchy not as a social ill, but as a source of social hope? Taking us into a caste of thieves in northern India, Nobody's People depicts hierarchy as a normative idiom through which people imagine better lives and pursue social ambitions. Failing to find a place inside hierarchic relations, the book's heroes are nobody's people perceived as worthless, disposable and so open to being murdered with no regret or remorse. Following their journey between death and hope, we learn to perceive vertical, non-equal relations as a social good, not only in rural Rajasthan, but also in much of the world--including settings stridently committed to equality. Challenging egalo-normative commitments, Anastasia Piliavsky asks scholars across the disciplines to recognize hierarchy as a major intellectual resource.

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