E. Valentine Daniel
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English
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E. Valentine Daniel is Professor of Anthropology at Columbia Universityr. He is the author of Fluid Signs: Being a Person the Tamil Way.
How does an ethnographer write about violence? How can he make sense of violent acts, for himself and for his readers, without compromising its sheer excess and its meaning-defying core? How can he remain a scholarly observer when the country of his birth is engulfed by terror? These are some of the questions that...