Abstract:
The present essay dialogues with Veena Das’s book Textures of Ordinary: Doing Anthropology after Wittgenstein by examining three modes that life appears in Das’s work: ethnographic work as a life that is made together with interlocutors; the life that is woven into everyday life and that makes it possible to inhabit devastated spaces; and the life of concepts, that do not exist in abstract form but which are based on concrete experiences.
Keywords:
Veena Das; Textures of Ordinary; Life; Ethnographic making