Homo Hierarchicus - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Homo Hierarchicus write by Louis Dumont. This book was released on 1980. Homo Hierarchicus available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Louis Dumont's modern classic, here presented in an enlarged, revised, and corrected second edition, simultaneously supplies that reader with the most cogent statement on the Indian caste 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 this innovative and influential work.
Homo Hierarchicus
Homo Hierarchicus - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Homo Hierarchicus write by Dumont. This book was released on 1981. Homo Hierarchicus available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Homo Hierarchicus
Homo Hierarchicus - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Homo Hierarchicus write by Louis Dumont. This book was released on 1988. Homo Hierarchicus available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Homo hierarchicus
Homo hierarchicus - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Homo hierarchicus write by . This book was released on 1966. Homo hierarchicus available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Castes of Mind
Castes of Mind - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Castes of Mind write by Nicholas B. Dirks. This book was released on 2011-10-09. Castes of Mind available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When thinking of India, it is hard not to think of caste. In academic and common parlance alike, caste has become a central symbol for India, marking it as fundamentally different from other places while expressing its essence. Nicholas Dirks argues that caste is, in fact, neither an unchanged survival of ancient India nor a single system that reflects a core cultural value. Rather than a basic expression of Indian tradition, caste is a modern phenomenon--the product of a concrete historical encounter between India and British colonial rule. Dirks does not contend that caste was invented by the British. But under British domination caste did become a single term capable of naming and above all subsuming India's diverse forms of social identity and organization. Dirks traces the career of caste from the medieval kingdoms of southern India to the textual traces of early colonial archives; from the commentaries of an eighteenth-century Jesuit to the enumerative obsessions of the late-nineteenth-century census; from the ethnographic writings of colonial administrators to those of twentieth-century Indian scholars seeking to rescue ethnography from its colonial legacy. The book also surveys the rise of caste politics in the twentieth century, focusing in particular on the emergence of caste-based movements that have threatened nationalist consensus. Castes of Mind is an ambitious book, written by an accomplished scholar with a rare mastery of centuries of Indian history and anthropology. It uses the idea of caste as the basis for a magisterial history of modern India. And in making a powerful case that the colonial past continues to haunt the Indian present, it makes an important contribution to current postcolonial theory and scholarship on contemporary Indian politics.
