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020			_a9781503614208
028			_a: Raghav Books Pvt. Ltd. _b: A-184, A Nand Gram, Ghaziabad, Ghaziabad _c: 1569 _d: 30/10/2024
082			_a305.5 PIL
100			_aPiliavsky, Anastasia.
245			_aNobody's People _b: Hierarchy As Hope in A Society of Thieves. _c/ Anastasia Piliavsky.
260			_a, California _b: Stanford University Press _c,2021.
300			_axii, 252p. _c: 24cm.
365			_b4322
520			_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.
650			_aCaste of thieves
650			_aSocial ambitions
650			_aSociety of Thieves
700			_aAnastasia Piliavsky
942			_cBOOK
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