Contextualising caste : post-Dumontian approaches / edited by Mary Searle-Chatterjee and Ursula Shar...
Contextualising caste : post-Dumontian approaches / edited by Mary Searle-Chatterjee and Ursula Shar...
Contextualising caste : post-Dumontian approaches / edited by Mary Searle-Chatterjee and Ursula Sharma.
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Oxford, UK ; Cambridge, MA, USA : Blackwell Publishers/Sociological review, 1994.
Date
1994.
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N305.5122/4
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Language
English
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Physical content
184 p. : ill., 1 map ; 22 cm.
Contents
Introduction / Mary Searle Chatterjee and Ursula M. Sharma -- Is a theory of caste still possible? / Declan Quigley -- Caste, democracy and the politics of community formation in India / Subrata Mitra -- Berreman revisited; caste and the comparative method / Ursula M. Sharma -- Girasias and the poli...
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Publisher
Oxford, UK ; Cambridge, MA, USA : Blackwell Publishers/Sociological review, 1994.
Place of Publication
Massachusetts
Date Published
1994.
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Summary
Much anthropological and sociological work on South Asia (especially that of western academics) takes for granted the centrality of caste in Hindu society. Anthropologists in particular have been fascinated by the ritual aspects of caste. This tendency has been intensified by the influence of Louis Dumont on recent theorisations of caste. Some have...
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Contextualising caste : post-Dumontian approaches / edited by Mary Searle-Chatterjee and Ursula Sharma.
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Sociological review monograph.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N305.5122/4
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ISBN
0631192832
9780631192831
DDC
305.51220954
MMS ID
991022868179702626
