Textures of the Ordinary Doing Anthropology after Wittgenstein

Preface | xi
Introduction | 1
1 Wittgenstein and Anthropology: Anticipations | 29
2 A Politics of the Ordinary: Action, Expression, and Everyday Life | 58
3 Ordinary Ethics: Take One | 96
4 Ethics, Self-Knowledge, and Words Not at Home:
The Ephemeral and the Durable | 120
5 Disorders of Desire or Moral Striving? Engaging the Life of the Other | 148
6 Psychiatric Power, Mental Illness, and the Claim to the Real:
Foucault in the Slums of Delhi | 173
7 The Boundaries of the "We": Cruelty, Responsibility, and Forms of Life | 198
8 A Child Disappears: Law in the Courts, Law in the Interstices of Everyday Life | 216
9 Of Mistakes, Errors, and Superstition:
Reading Wittgenstein's Remarks on Frazer | 246
10 Concepts Crisscrossing: Anthropology and Knowledge-Making | 275
11 The Life of Concepts: In the Vicinity of Dying | 307
Acknowledgments | 333
Notes | 337
References | 373
Index | 403