: Hierarchy As Hope in A Society of Thieves Piliavsky, Anastasia. creator Anastasia Piliavsky text California : Stanford University Press ,2021 monographic eng

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xii, 252p. : 24cm. 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. / Anastasia Piliavsky. Caste of thieves Social ambitions Society of Thieves 305.5 PIL 9781503614208 : Raghav Books Pvt. Ltd. : A-184, A Nand Gram, Ghaziabad, Ghaziabad 241105 20241105115721.0