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SUMMARY:Theorising the Aporia of Communist Asceticism in India - Riccardo 
 Jaede – MPhil Student\, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology\, 
 St Antony’s College
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CONTACT:Francisco Orozco
DESCRIPTION:My thesis will explore the theoretical implications certain fo
 rms of asceticism may have for the recent anthropology of ethics. Accordin
 g to this\, the renunciation of privileges as the cultivation of an ethica
 l self may be viewed in a way that emphasises an understanding of the inte
 rnal life of an ascetic on its own terms and which\, for methodological re
 asons\, avoids questions about the social and structural outcomes. However
 \, in certain ascetic traditions the teleology of the self is both explici
 tly and implicitly linked to the social. Furthermore\, recent ethnographic
  observations suggests instances where the very project of transforming th
 e self and becoming an ascetic is premised on elements of the pre-ascetic 
 stage which are thus reproduced in the renouncers and their context. It is
  in these instances that aspects of the social appear to subvert the very 
 project aimed at overcoming the status quo at both the individual and soci
 al level. The anthropology of ethics must therefore address the very quest
 ions that rendered its intellectual predecessor a conceptually and methodo
 logically flawed endeavour. The task\, therefore\, is to confront these qu
 estions without reproducing their structural weaknesses.
LOCATION:Lee Hall\, Wolfson College
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