E V Daniel
Biographic Data
| ID | 10838 |
|---|---|
| NAME | E V Daniel |
| GIVEN NAMES | E V |
| FAMILY NAME | Daniel |
| SIGNATURE | DANIEL E V |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2222-9012 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 412 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Post‐road traffic injury experiences and challenges faced by college students: A qualitative study in Madurai district, Tamil Nadu, India
Road traffic injuries (RTIs) are a pressing public health concern in India, leading to a rise in injury‐related deaths, hospitalizations, and disabilities. India accounts for a significant portion of the world's fatal traffic accidents, with two‐wheelers being involved in the majority of these accidents. The impact of non‐fatal injuries on individuals extends beyond the bodily consequences of the injury and includes both the physical and psycholo…
Conclusion: The Making of a Coolie
This essay attempts to trace some of the more significant discursive and material practices of a gendered and racist colonial Asia of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries that went towards constituting the category of &s;the coolie&s;. Especially dear to the discourse in question was the notion that a &s;coolie&s; was essentially a peasant, given to a generalised disposition of immobility. The persistence of this fictive construction…
Semiotics
From the perspective of one who surveys the ever shifting and ever expanding field of modern semiotics/semeiotic, the long shadows of two dominant thinkers span the landscape: Charles Peirce and Ferdinand de Saussure. The history of the identification and use of signs as appropriate to certain culturally specified domains of knowledge and practice is, however, far richer and deeper. Such a history has been traced to divination and medicine in anc…
Ann Laura Stoler
Oration| September 01 2012 Ann Laura Stoler E. Valentine Daniel E. Valentine Daniel Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Public Culture (2012) 24 (3 68): 487-508. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-1630654 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation E. Valentine Dan…
The Semeiosic Economy of Fear
This essay is based on field research carried out in Sri Lanka, a country where there has been a civil war since the summer of 1983: a period during which it has earned a place in the roster of nations where torture is routinely practiced. Over the past 30 years, the fear of torture and the fear from torture have become ubiquitous in certain parts and certain sectors of the population. The aim of this paper is to examine the role played by the so…
Texture/Contexture: Explorations in Anthropology and Literary Studies
The rapprochement of anthropology and literary studies, begun nearly fifteen years ago by such pioneering scholars as Clifford Geertz, Edward Said, and James Clifford, has led not only to the creation of the new scholarly domain of cultural studies but to the deepening and widening of both original fields. Literary critics have learned to anthropologize their studies - to ask questions about the construction of meanings under historical condition…
Mistrusting Refugees
Crushed Glass, or, Is There a Counterpoint to Culture
Culture/Contexture: An Introduction
Charred Lullabies: Chapters in an Anthropography of Violence
How does an ethnographer write about violence? How can he make sense of violent acts, for himself and for his readers, without compromising its sheer excess and its meaning-defying core? How can he remain a scholarly observer when the country of his birth is engulfed by terror? These are some of the questions that engage Valentine Daniel in this exploration of life and death in contemporary Sri Lanka. In 1983 Daniel "walked into the ashes and mor…
Tea Talk: Violent Measures in the Discursive Practices of Sri Lanka's Estate Tamils
At the most manifest level, this paper is about agricultural and agronomic terminology as found in the discourse of Tamil-speaking workers on Sri Lanka's tea plantations or tea estates, as they are called there. My use of the terms agricultural and agronomic in this context is admittedly idiosyncratic. In the tea estates of Sri Lanka, two kinds of agricultural (in the unmarked sense) terminology are in use, one belonging to managerial agriculture…
Therapeutic History
Fluid Signs: Being a Person the Tamil Way
Fluid Signs is the product of anthropological fieldwork carried out among Tamil-speaking villagers in a Hindu village in Southern India. Combining a richness of ethnographic detail with a challenging and innovative theoretical analysis, Daniel argues that symbolic anthropologists have yet to appreciate the multifaceted function of the sign and its role in the creation of culture. This provocative study underscores the need for Western intellectua…
Fluid Signs: Being a Person the Tamil Way
Fluid Signs is the product of anthropological fieldwork carried out among Tamil-speaking villagers in a Hindu village in Southern India. Combining a richness of ethnographic detail with a challenging and innovative theoretical analysis, Daniel argues that symbolic anthropologists have yet to appreciate the multifaceted function of the sign and its role in the creation of culture. This provocative study underscores the need for Western intellectua…
Charred Lullabies: Chapters in an Anthropography of Violence
How does an ethnographer write about violence? How can he make sense of violent acts, for himself and for his readers, without compromising its sheer excess and its meaning-defying core? How can he remain a scholarly observer when the country of his birth is engulfed by terror? These are some of the questions that engage Valentine Daniel in this exploration of life and death in contemporary Sri Lanka. In 1983 Daniel "walked into the ashes and mor…
Texture/Contexture: Explorations in Anthropology and Literary Studies
The rapprochement of anthropology and literary studies, begun nearly fifteen years ago by such pioneering scholars as Clifford Geertz, Edward Said, and James Clifford, has led not only to the creation of the new scholarly domain of cultural studies but to the deepening and widening of both original fields. Literary critics have learned to anthropologize their studies - to ask questions about the construction of meanings under historical condition…
Ann Laura Stoler
Oration| September 01 2012 Ann Laura Stoler E. Valentine Daniel E. Valentine Daniel Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Public Culture (2012) 24 (3 68): 487-508. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-1630654 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation E. Valentine Dan…
Tea Talk: Violent Measures in the Discursive Practices of Sri Lanka's Estate Tamils
At the most manifest level, this paper is about agricultural and agronomic terminology as found in the discourse of Tamil-speaking workers on Sri Lanka's tea plantations or tea estates, as they are called there. My use of the terms agricultural and agronomic in this context is admittedly idiosyncratic. In the tea estates of Sri Lanka, two kinds of agricultural (in the unmarked sense) terminology are in use, one belonging to managerial agriculture…
Fluid Signs: Being a Person the Tamil Way
Fluid Signs is the product of anthropological fieldwork carried out among Tamil-speaking villagers in a Hindu village in Southern India. Combining a richness of ethnographic detail with a challenging and innovative theoretical analysis, Daniel argues that symbolic anthropologists have yet to appreciate the multifaceted function of the sign and its role in the creation of culture. This provocative study underscores the need for Western intellectua…
Therapeutic History
Tea Talk: Violent Measures in the Discursive Practices of Sri Lanka's Estate Tamils
At the most manifest level, this paper is about agricultural and agronomic terminology as found in the discourse of Tamil-speaking workers on Sri Lanka's tea plantations or tea estates, as they are called there. My use of the terms agricultural and agronomic in this context is admittedly idiosyncratic. In the tea estates of Sri Lanka, two kinds of agricultural (in the unmarked sense) terminology are in use, one belonging to managerial agriculture…
Crushed Glass, or, Is There a Counterpoint to Culture
Culture/Contexture: An Introduction
Charred Lullabies: Chapters in an Anthropography of Violence
How does an ethnographer write about violence? How can he make sense of violent acts, for himself and for his readers, without compromising its sheer excess and its meaning-defying core? How can he remain a scholarly observer when the country of his birth is engulfed by terror? These are some of the questions that engage Valentine Daniel in this exploration of life and death in contemporary Sri Lanka. In 1983 Daniel "walked into the ashes and mor…
Mistrusting Refugees
Texture/Contexture: Explorations in Anthropology and Literary Studies
The rapprochement of anthropology and literary studies, begun nearly fifteen years ago by such pioneering scholars as Clifford Geertz, Edward Said, and James Clifford, has led not only to the creation of the new scholarly domain of cultural studies but to the deepening and widening of both original fields. Literary critics have learned to anthropologize their studies - to ask questions about the construction of meanings under historical condition…
The Semeiosic Economy of Fear
This essay is based on field research carried out in Sri Lanka, a country where there has been a civil war since the summer of 1983: a period during which it has earned a place in the roster of nations where torture is routinely practiced. Over the past 30 years, the fear of torture and the fear from torture have become ubiquitous in certain parts and certain sectors of the population. The aim of this paper is to examine the role played by the so…
Ann Laura Stoler
Oration| September 01 2012 Ann Laura Stoler E. Valentine Daniel E. Valentine Daniel Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Public Culture (2012) 24 (3 68): 487-508. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-1630654 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation E. Valentine Dan…
Semiotics
From the perspective of one who surveys the ever shifting and ever expanding field of modern semiotics/semeiotic, the long shadows of two dominant thinkers span the landscape: Charles Peirce and Ferdinand de Saussure. The history of the identification and use of signs as appropriate to certain culturally specified domains of knowledge and practice is, however, far richer and deeper. Such a history has been traced to divination and medicine in anc…
Conclusion: The Making of a Coolie
This essay attempts to trace some of the more significant discursive and material practices of a gendered and racist colonial Asia of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries that went towards constituting the category of &s;the coolie&s;. Especially dear to the discourse in question was the notion that a &s;coolie&s; was essentially a peasant, given to a generalised disposition of immobility. The persistence of this fictive construction…
Post‐road traffic injury experiences and challenges faced by college students: A qualitative study in Madurai district, Tamil Nadu, India
Road traffic injuries (RTIs) are a pressing public health concern in India, leading to a rise in injury‐related deaths, hospitalizations, and disabilities. India accounts for a significant portion of the world's fatal traffic accidents, with two‐wheelers being involved in the majority of these accidents. The impact of non‐fatal injuries on individuals extends beyond the bodily consequences of the injury and includes both the physical and psycholo…
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