Textures of the Ordinary

Textures of the Ordinary Description

Veena Das is Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Anthropology at the Johns Hopkins University. Her most recent books are Affliction: Health, Disease, Poverty; Four Lectures on Ethics (with Michael Lambek, Didier Fassin, and Webb Keane); and Life and Words: Violence and the Descent into the Ordinary. Das is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy. She has received honorary doctorates from the Universality of Chicago, University of Edinburgh, University of Bern, and from Durham University.