Nobody's People
Hierarchy as Hope in a Society of Thieves
Anastasia Piliavsky
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Nobody's People
Hierarchy as Hope in a Society of Thieves
Anastasia Piliavsky
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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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Inhaltsverzeichnis
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Series Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Dramatis Personae
- Note on Transliteration
- Prologue
- 1. Hierarchy as Hope
- 2. The Lords of Begun
- 3. The People Who Were Not There
- 4. The Perils of Masterless People
- 5. How to Make and Eat a Goddess in Nine Days
- 6. Who and Whose
- 7. The New Lords of Begun
- 8. Every Man a King
- Notes
- References
- Index
- Series List