Nobody''s People - Hierarchy As Hope in a Society of Thieves

A radical rethinking of hierarchy as a moral idiom through an ethnography of professional thieves in northern India.

List of contents

0. 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

About the author

Anastasia Piliavsky is Senior Lecturer in Anthropology and Politics at the India Institute at King's College London. She is the editor of Patronage as Politics in South Asia (2014).

Summary

A radical rethinking of hierarchy as a moral idiom through an ethnography of professional thieves in northern India.

Product details

• Authors: Anastasia Piliavsky
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2020
• EAN: 9781503604643
• ISBN: 978-1-5036-0464-3
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: South Asia in Motion
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology