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Knowing Dil Das is not about peasant culture but about the limits of culture and history. It is also about the moral ambiguity of writing and living in a field of power where, despite intimacy, self and other are unequal.'

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This rich and complex book is often moving, frequently thought-provoking. -Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute This book will become a classic. It has passion, compelling stories, sober reflection, and an incredibly artful structure that carries the reader along. Most important, like all great anthropology, the story speaks to the issue of what constitutes the human spirit. There is wisdom in this book, and for that rare gift I am grateful to Dil Das and Joseph Alter. -Paul Stoller, author of Sensuous Scholarship

"""This rich and complex book is often moving, frequently thought-provoking.""—Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute ""This book will become a classic. It has passion, compelling stories, sober reflection, and an incredibly artful structure that carries the reader along. Most important, like all great anthropology, the story speaks to the issue of what constitutes the human spirit. There is wisdom in this book, and for that rare gift I am grateful to Dil Das and Joseph Alter.""—Paul Stoller, author of Sensuous Scholarship"

This rich and complex book is often moving, frequently thought-provoking. -Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute This book will become a classic. It has passion, compelling stories, sober reflection, and an incredibly artful structure that carries the reader along. Most important, like all great anthropology, the story speaks to the issue of what constitutes the human spirit. There is wisdom in this book, and for that rare gift I am grateful to Dil Das and Joseph Alter. -Paul Stoller, author of Sensuous Scholarship

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Joseph Alter teaches anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh. He is the author of The Wrestler's Body: Identity and Ideology in North India.

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