Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Preface xi
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. Wittgenstein and Anthropology: Anticipations 29
6. 2. A Politics of the Ordinary: Action, Expression, and Everyday Life 58
7. 3. Ordinary Ethics: Take One 96
8. 4. Ethics, Self- Knowledge, and Words Not at Home: The Ephemeral and the Durable 120
9. 5. Disorders of Desire or Moral Striving? Engaging the Life of the Other 148
10. 6. Psychiatric Power, Mental Illness, and the Claim to the Real: Foucault in the Slums of Delhi 173
11. 7. The Boundaries of the “We”: Cruelty, Responsibility, and Forms of Life 198
12. 8. A Child Dis appears: Law in the Courts, Law in the Interstices of Everyday Life 216
13. 9. Of Mistakes, Errors, and Superstition: Reading Wittgenstein’s Remarks on Frazer 246
14. 10. Concepts Crisscrossing: Anthropology and Knowledge- Making 275
15. 11. The Life of Concepts: In the Vicinity of Dying 307
16. Acknowledgments 333
17. Notes 337
18. References 373
19. Index 403