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DESCRIPTION:Kalpana Ram\, Associate Professor\, Department of Anthropology\
 , Macquarie University&amp\;amp\;#160\;The Nature of the Complaint: In the
  Court of the Goddess in South IndiaIn his\nfinal work\, Maurice Merleau-P
 onty\ndevelops the image of a chiasm or fold\, through which we and the wo
 rld are\nintertwined in a carnal embrace. Based on ethnographic work in Ta
 mil Nadu\, Ram\nargues that this vision gives us a way of understanding de
 ep seated notions of\njustice that underlie the complaints of suffering br
 ought to the goddess\,\nparticularly by women. While not denying the need 
 for multiple visions of\njustice\, this presentation will reverse the usua
 l direction of questions and\nask: how does the justice meted out by the g
 oddess help us address the blind\nspots in modern political traditions?​Op
 en to the public.Sponsored by the South Asia Center at the Moynihan Instit
 ute of Global Affairs\, Department of Anthropology\, and Women&amp\;amp\;#
 39\;s and Gender Studies. 
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SUMMARY:SAC presents: Kalpana Ram
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X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><b>Kalpana Ram<
 /b>\, <i>Associate Professor\, Department of Anthropology\, Macquarie Univ
 ersity&amp\;amp\;#160\;</i></p><p><b>The Nature of the Complaint: In the C
 ourt of the Goddess in South India</b></p><p>In his\nfinal work\, Maurice 
 Merleau-Ponty\ndevelops the image of a chiasm or fold\, through which we a
 nd the world are\nintertwined in a carnal embrace. Based on ethnographic w
 ork in Tamil Nadu\, Ram\nargues that this vision gives us a way of underst
 anding deep seated notions of\njustice that underlie the complaints of suf
 fering brought to the goddess\,\nparticularly by women. While not denying 
 the need for multiple visions of\njustice\, this presentation will reverse
  the usual direction of questions and\nask: how does the justice meted out
  by the goddess help us address the blind\nspots in modern political tradi
 tions?​</p><p>Open to the public.</p><p><b><i>Sponsored by the South Asia 
 Center at the Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs\, Department of Anthrop
 ology\, and Women&amp\;amp\;#39\;s and Gender Studies.</i></b></p><p> </p>
 <p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p>
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