Abstract
This paper reflects on Veena Das's writing in Textures of the Ordinary. We argue that in the process of describing forms of life and elaborating concepts, the author keeps traces of her interlocutors lives in her writings through the different tones and subtones of the stories she heard, lived, and recounts. We argue that the different chapters of the book open up the possibility of imagining forms of ethnographic writing in which the tones an subtones present in daily life appear as constitutive oflanguage and the processes of transmitting experience.
Keywords:
Veena Das; Ethnographic Writing; Forms of Life; Ethnography