01528nam a22002057a 450000500170000000800410001702000180005802800950007608200140017110000260018524500900021126000540030130000240035536500090037952008450038865000210123365000210125465000230127570000240129820241105115721.0241105b        |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a9781503614208  a: Raghav Books Pvt. Ltd.b: A-184, A Nand Gram, Ghaziabad, Ghaziabadc: 1569d: 30/10/2024  a305.5 PIL  aPiliavsky, Anastasia.  aNobody's Peopleb: Hierarchy As Hope in A Society of Thieves.c/ Anastasia Piliavsky.  a, Californiab: Stanford University Pressc,2021.  axii, 252p.c: 24cm.  b4322  aWhat 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.  aCaste of thieves  aSocial ambitions  aSociety of Thieves  aAnastasia Piliavsky