This paper aims to analyze the concept of traditions and quite unlike the first impression of it, the fragility of traditions via review of the essay-The Debate on Sati in Colonial India by Late Mani. Methodology used will be of the... more
This paper aims to analyze the concept of traditions and quite unlike the first impression of it, the fragility of traditions via review of the essay-The Debate on Sati in Colonial India by Late Mani. Methodology used will be of the structuralism as its influence could not have escaped me while reading the works. Structuralism Saussure in his lectures (now published as Course in General Linguistics) speaks about a sign. This sign according to him becomes the building block of not just the sentence but also the meaning that follows. A sign, according to Saussure is made of the signifier and the signified. The signifier are the words uttered, the sound made, and the signified is the meaning that this particular sound entails. Further elaborating he says, "The linguistic sign unites, not a thing (signified) and a name (signifier) , but a concept and a sound-image. The latter is not the material sound, a purely physical thing, but the psychological imprint of the sound, the impression that it makes on our senses." (pg. 66). But the most important concept of this sign is
I interrogate whether a historically located violence on the body of the gendered subaltern can be made ethically legible (specifically, I read a moment of sudden textual transgression, as a certain archival mark that can be called... more
I interrogate whether a historically located violence on the body of the gendered subaltern can be made ethically legible (specifically, I read a moment of sudden textual transgression, as a certain archival mark that can be called ‘non-human’ overflows the disciplinary contours of a feminist historiography of the ‘sati debate’), where no normative or institutional frame can provide any clear or unbiased account. I justapose this reading with certain 'insecting' moments in the work of Jacques Derrida.
ABSTRACT The anthropological notion of Culture is founded on the presupposition of a radical difference between self and other, here and there, Eurocenter and Third World. This conceptual foundation has increasingly been under chal-lenge,... more
ABSTRACT The anthropological notion of Culture is founded on the presupposition of a radical difference between self and other, here and there, Eurocenter and Third World. This conceptual foundation has increasingly been under chal-lenge, as the Eurocenter is being forcibly ...
