Nullius: The Anthropology of Ownership, Sovereignty, and the Law in India Kapila Kriti
Nullius: The Anthropology of Ownership, Sovereignty, and the Law in India Kapila Kriti Nullius is an anthropological account of the troubled place of ownership and its consequences for social…
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Nullius: The Anthropology of Ownership, Sovereignty, and the Law in India Kapila Kriti
Nullius is an anthropological account of the troubled place of ownership and its consequences for social relations in India. It examines three instantiations of negation, where the Indian state de facto adopted the doctrines of terra nullius (in the erasure of indigenous title), res nullius (in acquiring museum objects), and, controversially, corpus nullius (in denying ownership of one's personhood in citizens' data collected through biometric identification).Nullius contends that even though property rights and ownership are a cornerstone of modern law, they are a spectral presence in the Indian case. The book provides a detailed study of three doctrinal paradigms where proprietary relations have been erased, denied, or misappropriated by the Indian state.
This book will be of interest to scholars and students of the anthropology of the state,