| Edition |
Complete rev. English ed. |
| Description |
li, 488 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 448-471) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- 1. Castes and ourselves -- 2. The individual and society -- 3. Individualism and holism -- 4. Rousseau on equality -- 5. Tocqueville on equality -- 6. Tocqueville on individualism -- 7. Necessity of hierarchy -- Chapter 1: History of Ideas -- 11. Definition: the word 'caste' -- 12. Main attitudes -- 13. Voluntarist explanation -- 14. Caste as the limiting case of known institutions -- 15. 'Historical' explanations -- 16. Composite explanations -- 17. The period 1900-1945 -- 18. After 1945 -- Chapter II: From System to Structure: The Pure and the Impure -- 21. Element and system -- 22. The place of ideology -- 23. The notion of structure -- 24. The fundamental opposition -- 25. Pure and impure -- 26. Segmentation: caste and subcaste. |
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Chapter III: Hierarchy: The Theory of the 'Varna' -- 31. On hierarchy in general -- 32. The theory of the varna: power and priesthood -- 33. Caste and varna -- 34. Hierarchy and power -- 35. Regional status ranking (1901 Census) -- 36. A local example (Central India) -- 37. Attribution or interaction? -- Chapter IV: The Division of Labour -- 41. Caste and profession -- 42. The 'jajmani' system -- 43. Conclusion -- Chapter V: The Regulation of Marriage: Separation and Hierarchy -- 51. Importance of marriage -- 52. Endogamy: the usual view and its limitations -- 53. Hierarchy of marriages and conjugal unions -- 54. Isogamy and hypergamy -- 55. Some examples -- 56. Conclusion -- 57. The classical theory: marriage and varna -- Chapter VI: Rules Concerning Contact and Food -- 61. Place within the whole -- 62. Notes on contact and untouchability -- 63. Food in general -- 64. Food and drink (water) in caste relations -- 65. On the history of vegetarianism. |
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Chapter VII: Power and Territory -- 71. Introduction -- 72. The territorial framework: the 'little kingdom' -- 73. Rights, royal and other, over the land -- 74. The village -- 75. The problem of economics -- Chapter VIII: Caste Government: Justice and Authority -- 81. From power to authority -- 82. Supreme authority in caste affairs -- 83. The 'village panchayat' -- 84. Internal caste government -- 85. Relations between jurisdictions: authority in general. |
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Chapter IX: Concomitants and Implications -- 91. Introduction -- 92. Renunciation -- 93. The sect and its relations to the caste system: example of the 'Lingayat' -- 94. Tolerance and imitation -- 95. Diachronic implications: aggregation -- 96. Stability and change -- 97. Group kinetics: scission, aggregation, social mobility -- Chapter X: Comparison: Are There Castes Among Non-Hindus and Outside India? -- 101. Introduction -- 102. Christians and caste -- 103. Caste among Muslims -- 104. The case of the Pathan of Swat -- 105. Caste among non-Hindus: conclusion -- 106. Fundamental characteristics for comparison -- 107. The school of 'social stratification': caste and racism -- 108. Castes outside of India? |
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Chapter XI: Comparison (Concluded): The Contemporary Trend -- 111. The problem -- 112. Recent changes as portrayed by Ghurye -- 113. Complements -- 114. Is caste reinforcing itself? -- 115. From interdependence to competition -- 116. Provisional conclusion -- 117. Attempt at an inventory -- 118. Hierarchical society and egalitarian society: a summary comparative diagram -- 119. Conclusion. |
| Summary |
Louis Dumont's modern classic, here presented in an enlarged, revised, and corrected second edition, simultaneously supplies the reader with the most cogent statement on the Indian castle system and its organizing principles and a provocative advance in the comparison of societies on the basis of their underlying ideologies. Dumont moves gracefully from the ethnographic data to the level of the hierarchical ideology encrusted in ancient religious texts which are revealed as the governing conception of the contemporary caste structure. On yet another plane of analysis, homo hierarchicus is contrasted with his modern Western antithesis, homo aequalis. This edition includes a lengthy new preface in which Dumont reviews the academic discussion inspired by Homo hierarchicus and answers his critics. A new postface, which sketches the theoretical and comparative aspects of the concept of hierarchy, and three significant appendixes previously omitted from the English translation complete in this innovative and influential work. |
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Caste -- India.
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Caste -- India.
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Caste. (OCoLC)fst00848395
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India. (OCoLC)fst01210276
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Antropologia Cult Social.
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Classe Social.
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| Added Title |
Homo hierarchicus. English
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| ISBN |
0226169626 |
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9780226169620 |
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0226169634 (pbk.) |
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9780226169637 (pbk.) |
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