Singularity and Uncertainty
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4380236 |
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| Authors | Pinto (0000-0003-4455-696X, corresponding author), Sarah Pinto |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Publication date | 2017-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0305-7674 • E-ISSN: 2047-7716 |
| Publisher | Berghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3167/cja.2017.350204 |
| OpenAlex | W2767218281 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 17 |
On the cusp of India’s Independence, a young woman in Punjab met with a psychiatrist for a conceptual experiment – the development of a ‘more objective’ and ‘Oriental’ theory of dream analysis. Known to us only as Mrs A., not only did she offer a ‘daydream’ to analyst Dev Satya Nand, she presented an intimate account of mid-twentieth-century upper-class Indian marriage, sexuality and womanhood. In her portrayal of the stakes of kinship, she posed an alternate vision – an ethic of singularity and uncertainty formed out of, but departing from, concepts of security and emplacement. This article explores Mrs A.’s account, using the work of twenty-first-century artist Shahzia Sikander to theorize her vision of possibility, and developing the concept of a counter-ethic – a formulation that presses against the parameters of an overarching ethic, occupying its conceptual and social infrastructure, but nurturing a new vision at the points it cannot be sustained
Aesthetics · Dream · Epistemology · Kinship · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Mathematics · Philosophy · Political Theology and Sovereignty · Psychology · Water Governance and Infrastructure
The intimate enemy
Toward an Ethnosociology of South Asian Caste Systems
The intimate enemy
Homo hierarchicus
The Kothi Wars
Infrastructures as Ontological Experiments
Dis/locating Cultures/Identities, Traditions, and Third World Feminism
Notes on Love in a Tamil Family
Dislocating Cultures
Ethics
Queer Activism in India
Lifestyle as Resistance
The Infrastructure of Intimacy
Introduction
| Highly cited | No |
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