Veena Das

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Veena Das is affiliated with the following schools: Delhi University, University of California, Berkeley, Stanford University, Johns Hopkins University, Delhi School of Economics

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PhD Anthropology Delhi University

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According to Wikipedia, Veena Das, FBA in India is the Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Anthropology at the Johns Hopkins University. Her areas of theoretical specialisation include the anthropology of violence, social suffering, and the state. Das has received multiple international awards including the Ander Retzius Gold Medal, delivered the prestigious Lewis Henry Morgan Lecture and was named a foreign honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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Life and Words: Violence and the Descent into the Ordinary (2006) (1092)
Anthropology in the Margins of the State (2004) (644)
Violence in War and Peace: An Anthology (2003) (370)
In urban and rural India, a standardized patient study showed low levels of provider training and huge quality gaps. (2012) (355)
Violence and Subjectivity (2000) (282)
Critical Events: An Anthropological Perspective on Contemporary India (1996) (282)
Remaking a World - Violence, Social Suffering, and Recovery (2002) (231)
Mirrors of violence : communities, riots and survivors in South Asia (1992) (192)
Violence, Gender, and Subjectivity (2008) (184)
Use of standardised patients to assess quality of tuberculosis care: a pilot, cross-sectional study. (2015) (180)
Life And Words (2006) (175)
The know-do gap in quality of health care for childhood diarrhea and pneumonia in rural India. (2015) (145)
The Origins of Evil in Hindu Mythology (1978) (145)
State, citizenship, and the urban poor (2011) (118)
Disability and Domestic Citizenship: Voice, Gender, and the Making of the Subject (2001) (116)
Structure and Cognition: Aspects of Hindu Caste and Ritual (1979) (116)
8. Ordinary Ethics (2012) (111)
Masks and faces: an essay on Punjabi kinship (1976) (101)
Affliction: Health, Disease, Poverty (2015) (94)
Use of standardised patients to assess antibiotic dispensing for tuberculosis by pharmacies in urban India: a cross-sectional study (2016) (89)
Productivity in the Margins: The Reconstitution of State Power in the Chad Basin (2004) (82)
Variations in the quality of tuberculosis care in urban India: A cross-sectional, standardized patient study in two cities (2018) (81)
Specificities: Official Narratives, Rumour, and the Social Production of Hate (1998) (80)
Wittgenstein and Anthropology (1998) (75)
Trauma and Testimony (2003) (66)
Violence, Victimhood, and the Language of Silence (1985) (65)
Politics of the Urban Poor: Aesthetics, Ethics, Volatility, Precarity (2015) (62)
For a folk-theology and theological anthropology of Islam (1984) (60)
Public good, ethics, and everyday life: beyond the boundaries of bioethics. (1999) (59)
The Oxford India companion to sociology and social anthropology (2003) (57)
The uses of liminality: society and cosmos in Hinduism (1976) (52)
Concepts of Space (2012) (48)
Fire-related deaths in India in 2001: a retrospective analysis of data (2009) (48)
Spirit Possessions and Avenging GhostsStories of Supernatural Activity as Narratives of Terror and Mechanisms of Coping and Remembering (2001) (46)
Use of standardised patients for healthcare quality research in low- and middle-income countries (2019) (43)
Action, Expression, and Everyday Life: Recounting Household Events (2014) (42)
Anthropology, knowledge-flows and global health (2010) (42)
Ordinary Ethics (2020) (41)
Stigma , Contagion , Defect : Issues in the Anthropology of Public Health (2013) (40)
Fluent Bodies: Ayurvedic Remedies for Postcolonial Imbalance (2005) (39)
Political Leadership and the Urban Poor (2015) (39)
Speech and SilenceWomen's Testimony in the First Five Weeks of Public Hearings of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (2001) (39)
Sufferings, theodicies, disciplinary practices, appropriations (2010) (37)
Sexual Violence, Discursive Formations and the State (2013) (35)
The Structure of Marriage Preferences: An Account from Pakistani Fiction (1973) (35)
Living and Working with the New Medical Technologies: The practice of organ transplants: networks, documents, translations (2000) (35)
Anthropological Knowledge and Collective Violence: The Riots in Delhi, November 1984 (1985) (32)
What Is Analysis?: Between Theory, Ethnography, and Method (2018) (31)
The Ground Between: Anthropologists Engage Philosophy (2014) (31)
On the Modalities of the Domestic (2008) (30)
The mental health gender-gap in urban India: patterns and narratives. (2012) (29)
Violence and Nonviolence at the Heart of Hindu Ethics (2013) (29)
Violence and Translation (2002) (29)
URBAN HEALTH AND PHARMACEUTICAL CONSUMPTION IN DELHI, INDIA (2005) (29)
Corruption and the possibility of life (2015) (28)
Language of Sacrifice (1983) (27)
Evaluation of a social franchising and telemedicine programme and the care provided for childhood diarrhoea and pneumonia, Bihar, India (2017) (25)
Comparative Ethnographies (2017) (23)
Composition of the Personal Voice: Violence and Migration (1991) (21)
The Anthropology of Violence and the Speech of Victims (1987) (21)
A Sociological Approach to the Caste Puranas : A Case Study 1 (1968) (20)
The Bomb's Womb?Women and the Atom Bomb (2001) (20)
Use of standardised patients to assess gender differences in quality of tuberculosis care in urban India: a two-city, cross-sectional study (2019) (18)
Voice as birth of culture (1995) (18)
Ethics, self-knowledge, and life taken as a whole (2018) (17)
Disease control and immunisation. A sociological enquiry. (2000) (17)
Anthropology in the Margins: Comparative Ethnographies (2004) (16)
Cohabiting an Interreligious Milieu: Reflections on Religious Diversity (2014) (15)
Modernity and Biography: Women's Lives in Contemporary India (1994) (15)
Time, Self, and Community: Features of the Sikh Militant Discourse (1992) (14)
Textures of the Ordinary: Doing Anthropology after Wittgenstein (2020) (14)
Ethics, the householder’s dilemma, and the difficulty of reality (2014) (14)
Boundaries, Names, AlteritiesA Case Study of a “Communal Riot” in Dharavi, Bombay (2001) (13)
The Boundaries of the “We:” Cruelty, Responsibility and Forms of Life (2016) (11)
Being Together with Animals: Death, Violence and Noncruelty in Hindu Imagination (2020) (11)
Handbook of Indian Sociology (2006) (11)
The dreamed guru: The entangled lives of the amil and the anthropologist (2012) (11)
Conditions of Possibility (2006) (10)
Introduction: Experiments between Anthropology and Philosophy: Affinities and Antagonisms (2014) (10)
Textures of the Ordinary (2020) (10)
Introduction. On Names in South Asia: Iteration, (Im)propriety and Dissimulation (2015) (10)
The Figure of the Abducted Woman: The Citizen as Sexed (2006) (10)
Marginality, Suttering, and CommunityThe Politics of Collective Experience and Empowerment in Thailand (2001) (9)
6 Secularism and the Argument from Nature (2006) (9)
The Anti-Witch (2015) (9)
War and the Mythological Imagination (2013) (9)
Sexuality, Vulnerability, and the Oddness of the Human: Lessons from the Mahabharata (2010) (8)
Chronicle of a struggle and other writings (2006) (7)
Global Perspectives on War, Gender and Health: The Sociology and Anthropology of Suffering (2011) (7)
Kinship, Memory, and Time in the Lives of HIV/AIDS Patients in a North American City (2008) (7)
On the Nature of Caste in India A Review Symposium on Louis Dumont's Homo Hierarchicus : 6 The Elementary Structure of Caste (1971) (7)
Introduction: A Concept Note (2019) (7)
Democratic Strivings, Social Sciences, and Public Debates: The Case of India (2014) (7)
The Word and the world : fantasy, symbol, and record (1987) (7)
Recycling of Recalcitrant Solid Waste from Herbal Pharmaceutical Industry through Vermicomposting (2017) (7)
Review essay : Poverty, marginality, and illness (2006) (6)
Neighbors and acts of silent kindness (2013) (6)
Commentary: Trauma and Testimony: Between Law and Discipline (2007) (6)
Bulletin of the World Health Organization (2015) (6)
The Mythological Film and its Framework of Meaning: An Analysis of "Jai Santoshi Ma" (2016) (6)
Community and violence in contemporary Punjab (1994) (6)
Ayya's Accounts: A Ledger of Hope in Modern India (2014) (5)
Time is a Trickster and Other Fleeting Thoughts on Cavell, his Life, his Work (2012) (5)
3 How the Body Speaks (2019) (5)
Simulated patients and their reality: An inquiry into theory and method (2021) (5)
Reimagining AboriginalityAn Indigenous People's Response to Social Suffering (2001) (4)
Poverty and the Imagination of a Future: The Story of Urban Slums in Delhi, India (2012) (4)
CHRISTIANITY AND WORLD RELIGIONS: A RESPONSE (1987) (3)
Violence, Crisis, and the Everyday (2013) (3)
Beyond trauma, beyond humanitarianism, beyond empathy: A commentary (2015) (3)
Communities, riots and survivors in South Asia : mirrors of violence (1990) (3)
Collective Violence and the Shifting Categories of Communal Riots, Ethnic Cleansing and Genocide (2008) (3)
Knowledge Production and Regional Scholarship (2014) (3)
Companionable thinking (2020) (3)
Scientific and political representations. Cholera vaccine in India. (2000) (3)
Health Affairs Provider Training And Huge Quality Gaps In Urban And Rural India , A Standardized Patient Study Showed Low Levels Of (2012) (3)
Naming Beyond Pointing: Singularity, Relatedness and the Foreshadowing of Death (2015) (2)
Human Rights and Changing Definitions of Warfare (2005) (2)
Value added product recovery from sludge generated during gum arabic refining process by vermicomposting (2016) (2)
Kāma in the scheme of puru⊡ārthas: the story of Rāma (1981) (2)
How the Body Speaks (2015) (2)
Dislocation and Rehabilitation Defining a Field (2016) (2)
Sociology and Anthropology of Economic Life I: The Moral Embedding of Economic Action (2010) (1)
Marriage and Kinship in India: Two Recent Studies (1973) (1)
Do no harm: The know-do gap and quality of care for childhood diarrhea and pneumonia in Bihar, India (2014) (1)
On Female Body and Sexuality (1987) (1)
Psychiatric Power, Mental Illness, and the Claim to the Real (2020) (1)
Adjacent Thinking:: A Postscript (2014) (1)
Social sciences and public debates: The case of India (2015) (1)
Fake: Anthropological Keywords (2020) (1)
Experiments between Anthropology and Philosophy : Affi nities and Antagonisms (2017) (1)
Concepts Crisscrossing (2020) (1)
Democratic strivings, social sciences, and public debates (2014) (1)
Mental Illness, Psychiatric Institutions, and the Singularity of Lives (2015) (1)
Fluent Bodies: Ayurvedic Remedies for Postcolonial Imbalance (review) (2005) (1)
Introduction. On Names in South Asia (2015) (1)
Cultivating development: an ethnography of aid policy and practice – By Mosse, David (2010) (1)
Fire-related deaths in India: how accurate are the estimates? – Authors' reply (2009) (1)
Global Health Discourse and the View from Planet Earth (2015) (0)
Book reviews and notices : BRENDA E.F. BECK: The three twins: the telling of a south Indian folk epic. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1982. 248 pp (1984) (0)
Potential Utilization of Jatropha Oil Meal as Feed Substrate for Earthworm Eudrilus Eugeniae for Production of Vermicompost (2017) (0)
One of the editors of Theory moved from North to South Amrica and joined the other editor at Iuperj, a small but vibrant research institute in social and political sciences in Rio de Janeiro (2007) (0)
The Origins of Evil in Hindu Mythology . By Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1977. xi, 411 pp. Bibliography, Index. $15.00 (1978) (0)
Book Reviews : Romila Thapar, The Past and Prejudice, National Book Trust, New Delhi, 1975, Pp. 70, Rs 5 (1976) (0)
Mental Illness and the Urban Poor: Psychiatric Institutions and the Singularity of Lives (2020) (0)
3 Crisscrossing Concepts: Anthropology and Knowledge-Making (2021) (0)
South Asia and the Stakes of Social Theory (2020) (0)
On the Categories Brahman, King and Sanyasi (2012) (0)
Do Private Providers Initiate Anti-Tuberculosis Therapy on the Basis of Chest Radiographs? A Standardised Patient Study in Urban India (2023) (0)
Introduction (2020) (0)
Crisscrossing Concepts (2021) (0)
Book Reviews (1968) (0)
Ethics, Self-Knowledge, and Words Not at Home (2020) (0)
The Life of Concepts (2020) (0)
First Book Symposium (2019) (0)
Disorders of Desire or Moral Striving? (2020) (0)
Book Reviews : IMTIAZ AHMAD (Ed.), Caste and Social Stratification among Muslims in India (2nd edn.), Manohar, 1978, Pp. 318, Rs 65. IMTIAZ AHMAD (Ed.), Family, Kinship, and Marriage among Muslims in India, Manohar, 1976, Pp. 367, Rs 75 (1979) (0)
Book Reviews : GANANATH OBEYEKERE, Medusa's Hair: An Essay on Personal Symbols and Religious Experience, The University of Chicago Press, 1981, pp. 217 (1982) (0)
Book Reviews (1973) (0)
European Research on India (1978) (0)
Locations and locutions (2018) (0)
NTRODUCTION: FROM WORDS TO WORLDS (2021) (0)
Subaltern studies 6 : writings on South Asian history and society (1994) (0)
The culinary codes of the Hindus (1981) (0)
The Reluctant Healer and the Darkness of Our Times (2015) (0)
Harassment of Ashis Nandy (2008) (0)
The Difficulty of Reality in Zones of Abandonment (2008) (0)
CITRONELLA OIL MEAL RECYCLING THROUGH VERMICOMPOSTING USING EUDRILUSEUGINIAE (2015) (0)
The Boundaries of the “We” (2020) (0)
Book Reviews : K. C. Panchnadikar and J. Panchnadikar, Determinants of Social Structure and Social Change in India. Bombay, Popular Prakashan, 1970, pp. 241, price: Rs. 32 (1971) (0)
Tuberculosis diagnosis and management in the public versus private sector: a standardised patients study in Mumbai, India (2022) (0)
Language as Ideology (1986) (0)
Association of Standardized Patient Educators: 13th Annual Meeting (2014) (0)
Book Reviews (2010) (0)
Between Words and Lives.: A Thought on the Coming Together of Margins, Violence, and Suffering: An Interview with Veena Das (2014) (0)
CRISSCROSSING CONCEPTS: (2021) (0)
Reviewer Acknowledgements (2011) (0)
On Names in South Asia (2015) (0)
Medicines, Markets, and Healing (2015) (0)
Current issues in global health evaluation: The role of academia in addressing methodological challenges (2014) (0)
From Words to Worlds (2021) (0)
A Child Disappears (2020) (0)
The Sacred and the Profane in Hinduism (2012) (0)
Book Reviews and Notices (1987) (0)
Of Mistakes, Errors, and Superstition (2020) (0)
A Politics of the Ordinary (2020) (0)
Book Reviews and Notices (1989) (0)
The Word and the World: Fantasy, Symbol and Record (1988) (0)
Introduction: Varieties of Life and the Word (1985) (0)
Comments: Axel Michaels’s article (2020) (0)
A child disappears: Law in the courts, law in the interstices of everyday life (2019) (0)
Collected Essays. By M. N. Srinivas with a foreword by, A. M. Shah. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2002. (2006) (0)
Books (1973) (0)
Wittgenstein and Anthropology: Anticipations (2020) (0)
Book Reviews : RICHARD G. Fox, Kin, Clan, Raja and Rule! State-Hinterland Relations in Pre- industrial India, University of California Press, 1971, Rs 40, Pp. 187 (1975) (0)
Book Reviews (2008) (0)
A Child Learns Illness and Learns Death (2015) (0)
Beyond Biopower: Psychiatry, Disorders of Desire, and Suicide (2015) (0)
Anthropologist Veena Das here revisits two critical events in Indian history: the Partition riots of 1947, and the violence against Sikhs following the 1984 assas- sination of Prime Minister (2008) (0)
Sociology and Anthropology of Economic Life 2: Strategies, Networks, and Markets (2014) (0)
The moral embedding of economic action (2010) (0)
Book reviews : JAMES A. BOON, Other Tribes, Other Scribes: Symbolic Anthropology in the Comparative Study of Cultures, Histories, Religions, and Texts, London, Cambridge University Press,1982, 303 pp. (including appendices, biblio graphy, and index), price not stated (1985) (0)
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The Empire of Trauma: An Inquiry into the Condition of Victimhood. By Didier Fassin and Richard Rechtman. Translated by Rachel Gomme. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2009. Pp. 305. (2010) (0)
Book Forum (2021) (0)

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