"What if we could imagine hierarchy not as a social ill, but as a source of social creativity and hope? In Nobody's People, Anastasia Piliavsky takes us into the world of thieves, the Kanjars, in the Indian state of Rajasthan. Introducing us to wily policemen, quirky aristocrats…
"What if we could imagine hierarchy not as a social ill, but as a source of social creativity and hope? In Nobody's People, Anastasia Piliavsky takes us into the world of thieves, the Kanjars, in the Indian state of Rajasthan. Introducing us to wily policemen, quirky aristocrats…
A radical rethinking of hierarchy as a moral idiom through an ethnography of professional thieves in northern India.
"What if we could imagine hierarchy not as a social ill, but as a source of social creativity and hope? In Nobody's People, Anastasia Piliavsky takes us into the world of thieves, the Kanjars, in the Indian state of Rajasthan. Introducing us to wily policemen, quirky aristocrats…
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…
"What if we could imagine hierarchy not as a social ill, but as a source of social creativity and hope? In Nobody's People, Anastasia Piliavsky takes us into the world of thieves, the Kanjars, in the Indian state of Rajasthan. Introducing us to wily policemen, quirky aristocrats…
"What if we could imagine hierarchy not as a social ill, but as a source of social creativity and hope? In Nobody's People, Anastasia Piliavsky takes us into the world of thieves, the Kanjars, in the Indian state of Rajasthan. Introducing us to wily policemen, quirky aristocrats…
A radical rethinking of hierarchy as a moral idiom through an ethnography of professional thieves in northern India.
"Focuses on the persistent norms of conduct and communication, forms of economic and ritual exchange, and mutual expectations, which distinguish patronage patterns in South Asian countries from those observed anywhere else"--
"Focuses on the persistent norms of conduct and communication, forms of economic and ritual exchange, and mutual expectations, which distinguish patronage patterns in South Asian countries from those observed anywhere else"--
Focuses on the persistent norms of conduct and communication, forms of economic and ritual exchange, and mutual expectations, which distinguish patronage patterns in South Asian countries from those observed anywhere else"
"Focuses on the persistent norms of conduct and communication, forms of economic and ritual exchange, and mutual expectations, which distinguish patronage patterns in South Asian countries from those observed anywhere else"--Résumé de l'éditeur
"Focuses on the persistent norms of conduct and communication, forms of economic and ritual exchange, and mutual expectations, which distinguish patronage patterns in South Asian countries from those observed anywhere else"
"Focuses on the persistent norms of conduct and communication, forms of economic and ritual exchange, and mutual expectations, which distinguish patronage patterns in South Asian countries from those observed anywhere else"--
This book studies patronage in South Asia to understand the vernacular workings of this political form.
"Focuses on the persistent norms of conduct and communication, forms of economic and ritual exchange, and mutual expectations, which distinguish patronage patterns in South Asian countries from those observed anywhere else"--