Textures of the Ordinary - (Thinking from Elsewhere) by Veena Das (Paperback)

The Textures of the Ordinary is a groundbreaking book that offers a new perspective on ethics and everyday life.

Through an in-depth exploration of two decades of ethnographic work among low-income urban families in India, Veena Das reveals how anthropology can claim to become not only "philosophical" but philosophy itself.

The book shows how the notion of texture aligns ethnography with the anthropological tone in Wittgenstein and Cavell, as well as in literary texts, and offers a model of thinking in which concepts and experience are shown to be mutually vulnerable.

With its intellectually intimate invitation into the ordinary, this book transforms our vision of life and ethics and reveals how anthropology can claim to become not only "philosophical" but philosophy itself.