In Your Writing I Am Existed
Reading the History of Anthropology via Textures of the Ordinary
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4016702 |
|---|---|
| Authors | B Singh (0000-0002-8877-3563, American Institute of Indian Studies, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 1079-1088 |
| Publication date | 2021-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociologia & Antropologia (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2236-7527 • E-ISSN: 2238-3875 |
| Publisher | FapUNIFESP (SciELO) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1590/2238-38752021v11314 |
| OpenAlex | W4285325181 |
| SciELO | S2238-38752021000401079 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 5 |
In this essay I try to suggest a non-teleological way of reading the history of anthropology, by placing Veena Das's Textures of the ordinary (2020) in relation to her previous books, beginning with Structure and cognition: aspects of Hindu caste and ritual (1977). Rather than a teleological movement from structuralism to "post-structuralism" or "self-reflexive" work, I point to the continuation and transfiguration of the concepts of structure and event across Das's different books, as a way of also imagining movements within social theory more broadly, without each successive "paradigm" having to dialectically negate its predecessor. Further, I ask what it means to age or to "mature" within a body of scholarly work, and how we might take an author to be growing simultaneously older and younger, if we take aging in thought not necessarily to be solely a question of chronology or teleology
Argument (complex analysis · Art · Epistemology · Linguistics · Literature · Reading (process · Reflexivity · Relation (database · Sociology · Structuralism (philosophy of science · Teleology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · History · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |