TY - BOOK AU - Jaaware, Aniket TI - Practicing caste: on touching and not touching SN - 9789352875405 U1 - 152.182 JAA-A PY - 2019/// CY - India PB - Orient BlackSwan KW - Touch KW - Caste N1 - Practicing Caste attempts a fundamental break from the tradition of caste studies, showing the limits of the historical, sociological, political, and moral categories through which it has usually been discussed. Engaging with the resources phenomenology, structuralism, and poststructuralism offer to our thinking of the body, Jaaware helps to illuminate the ethical relations that caste entails, especially around its injunctions concerning touching. The resulting insights offer new ways of thinking about sociality that are pertinent not only to India but also to thinking the common on a planetary basis ER -