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Nullius – The Anthropology of Ownership, Sovereignty, and the Law in India

Kriti Kapila
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  • ISBN 9781912808472
  • Weight: 338g
  • Dimensions: 150 x 228mm
  • Publication Date: 13 Jun 2022
  • Publisher: HAU Society Of Ethnographic Theory
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
  • Language: English
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Nullius is an award-winning anthropological account of the troubled status of ownership in India and its consequences for our understanding of sovereignty and social relations. Though property rights and ownership are said to be a cornerstone of modern law, in the Indian case they are often a spectral presence. Kapila offers a detailed study of paradigms where proprietary relations have been erased, denied, misappropriated. 
 
The book examines three forms of negation, where the Indian state de facto adopted doctrines of terra nullius (in the erasure of indigenous title), res nullius (in acquiring museum objects), and, controversially, corpus nullius (in denying citizens ownership of their bodies under biometrics). The result is a pathbreaking reconnection of questions of property, exchange, dispossession, law, and sovereignty.

Nullius is the winner of the 2024 Bernard S. Cohn Prize,  Association of Asian Studies.

About Kriti Kapila
Kriti Kapila is Lecturer in Anthropology and Law at King’s College London and is currently a Member in the School of School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. Her research interests include the anthropology of the state, technology, genetics, and India. Nullius is the winner of the Association of Asian Studies’ 2024 Bernard S. Cohn prize for first book.

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