ABSTRACT
Representation of echo chambers must necessarily be held together in relative instability. And the only meaningful anthropological ethics that must emerge from this is one that acknowledges a universal ethno-graphic condition. Patrick Olivelle’s translates the early Upanishads resisting the urge to categorize these texts and holding onto an interpretive precarity. He points out that knowledge in the early Upanishads is considered a secret but not necessarily secret generated by the politics of the knowledge production. Capital embraces the physical territory, fires it up with new energies and horizons of the expectation, and cyclically wrenches its forces out of it. Anthropology enters the realm of space to interrogate the interaction of state-mediated readings of the geography (in terms of development, progress, and estimated distance from a goal of a landscape perfectly aligned to ruling ideology) and lived narratives of the space.
