TY - GEN AU - Das, Veena TI - Textures of the ordinary: doing anthropology after Wittgenstein SN - 9789390122677 U1 - 301.01 PY - 2020/// CY - Hyderabad PB - Orient Blackswan KW - Anthropology- India KW - Urban Poor-Social conditions KW - Anthropology- Philosophy KW - Social Ethics KW - Violence KW - Suffering- Social Aspects N2 - Textures of the Ordinary shows how life is marked not only by catastrophic events but also by the soft knife of economic deprivation and the repetitive corrosions and routine violence within everyday life itself. As an alternative to normative ethics, this book develops ordinary ethics as attentiveness to the other and as the ability of small acts of care to stand up to horrific violence ER -