Contextualising caste : post-Dumontian approaches /
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...
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Oxford, UK ; Cambridge, MA, USA :
Blackwell Publishers/Sociological review,
1994.
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Table of 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 politics of difference in Rajasthan: 'caste', kinship and gender in a marginalised society / Maya Unnithan
- Caste without a system; a study of South Indian Harijans / Robert Deliege
- Caste, religion and other identities / Mary Searle-Chatterjee
- Caste - a personal perspective / A. Shukra.