Recasting caste : from the sacred to the profane /

Recasting Caste confronts the mainstream sociology of caste at its root: Louis Dumont's Homo Hierarchicus and its main source, Max Weber's distinction between class and status. Conventional wisdom on caste is idealist, and most students of the subject therefore exaggerate ritual homogeneit...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hira Singh (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Delhi : SAGE Publications, 2014.
Temas:
Caste > India > History.
Hinduism > India > History.
Castes > Inde > Histoire.
Hindouisme > Inde > Histoire.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
Caste
Hinduism
India
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Studying caste : ideas, material conditions and history
  • Priest and prince : status/power muddle
  • Varna to caste : religious and economic/political
  • Caste and subaltern studies : elite ideology and revisionist historiography
  • Inequalities between and within castes : kin, caste and land
  • Changing land relations and caste : view from a village
  • Indenture, religion and caste : the twin myths about Hinduism and caste.

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