Ganguly K. States Of Exception: Everyday Life and Postcolonial Identity

Minneapolis, London: University Of Minnesota Press, 2001. — 232 p. — ISBN10: 0816637172; ISBN13: 9780816637171.Postcolonial Studies/Cultural Studies. Explores the conflict between capitalism and tradition in an immigrant community.
A philosophical anthropology of everyday experience, this book is also a deeply informed and thought-provoking reflection on the work of cultural critique. States of Exception looks into a community of immigrants from India living in southern New Jersey-a group to whom the author, as a daughter of two of its members, enjoyed unprecedented access.Introduction: Gunga Gin and Other Anomalies
Writing the Field
The Antinomies of Everyday life
Personal Memory and the Contradictions of Selfhood
Food and the Habitus
The Dialectics of Ethnic Spectatorship
Afterword
Notes