| Description |
xvi, 209 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| Series |
Contributions to Indian sociology. Occasional studies ; 5 |
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Contributions to Indian sociology. Occasional studies ; 5.
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| Contents |
Preface / T.N. Madan -- Introduction / McKim Marriott -- Constructing an Indian ethnosociology / McKim Marriott -- Is there an Indian way of thinking? An informal essay / A.K. Ramanujan -- The original caste: power, history and hierarchy in South Asia / Nicholas B. Dirks -- Centrality, mutuality and hierarchy: shifting aspects of inter-caste relationships in north India / Gloria Goodwin Raheja -- Hindu periods of death 'impurity' / Diane Paull Mines -- Eating sins in Karimpur / Susan S. Wadley and Bruce W. Derr -- Humoral transactions in two Tamil cults: Murukan and Mariyamman / Manuel Moreno and McKim Marriott -- The Kerala house as a Hindu cosmos / Melinda A. Moore. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Subject |
Hindu civilization.
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India -- Civilization.
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| Added Author |
Marriott, McKim.
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| ISBN |
8170361761: Rs250.00 |
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