01578nam a22002297a 4500 20241105115721.0 241105b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9781503614208 : Raghav Books Pvt. Ltd. : A-184, A Nand Gram, Ghaziabad, Ghaziabad : 1569 : 30/10/2024 305.5 PIL Piliavsky, Anastasia. Nobody's People : Hierarchy As Hope in A Society of Thieves. / Anastasia Piliavsky. , California : Stanford University Press ,2021. xii, 252p. : 24cm. 4322 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. Caste of thieves Social ambitions Society of Thieves Anastasia Piliavsky BOOK 62534 62534 0 0 ddc 0 0 SNUL SNUL 2024-11-05 Raghav Books Pvt. Ptd. 4322.00 2 1 305.5 PIL 30439 2026-10-16 22:15:34 2026-09-14 2024-11-05 BOOK