Nobody's People: Hierarchy as Hope in a Society of Thieves by Anastasia Piliavsky

Nobody's People: Hierarchy as Hope in a Society of Thieves

South Asia in Motion

Anastasia Piliavsky

300 pages first pub 2020 (view editions)

nonfiction sociology
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What if we could imagine hierarchy not as a social ill, but as a source of social hope? Taking us into a "caste of thieves" in northern India, Nobody's People depicts hierarchy as a normative idiom through which people imagine better lives and pur...

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