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Aspects of Caste in South India, Ceylon and North-West Pakistan: Cambridge Papers in Social Anthropology, cartea 2

Autor E. R. Leach
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 oct 1971
When this book was originally published in paperback in 1971, one of the most hotly debated themes in Indian sociology was the meaning of the term caste. At one extreme Professor Dumont argued caste is an aspect of Hinduism that cannot be isolated from its religious matrix; on the other, certain American-trained sociologists represented the caste order as a specially rigid form of social class hierarchy. Aspects of Caste endeavoured to test these two hypotheses against the data. The first paper, by E. Kathleen Gough, describes the caste order of a village in Tanjore that corresponds closely to Dumont's ideal type. The second paper, by Michael Banks, relates to a Jaffna Tamil community in Northern Ceylon. Nur Yalman's paper describes a Buddhist Sinhalese community in Central Ceylon. Fredrik Barth's study of Swat in Northwestern Pakistan exhibits an even more divergent case. Edmund Leach's introductory essay discusses the general theoretical issues raised by these examples and their importance for an understanding of social issues in South Asia.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780521096645
ISBN-10: 0521096642
Pagini: 160
Ilustrații: illustrations, maps, bibliography
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 9 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Ediția:Revised
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Colecția Cambridge University Press
Seria Cambridge Papers in Social Anthropology

Locul publicării:Cambridge, United Kingdom

Cuprins

Contributors to this issue; Note on the spelling of caste names; Preface; Introduction: what should we mean by caste? E. R. Leach; Caste in a Tanjore village E. Kathleen Gough; Caste in Jaffna Michael Banks; The flexibility of caste principles in a Kandyan community Nur Yalman; The system of social stratification in Swat, North Pakistan Fredrik Barth; Bibliography; Map 1: General map showing the location of Tanjore, Jaffna, 'Terutenne' and Swat; Map 2: Map of Tanjore district; Map 3: Sketch-map of Kumbapettai; Map 4: Map of Ceylon; Fig. 1: Kinship diagram: the Potters of Terutenne; Fig. 2: Castes and occupations in Worejo; Fig. 3: The organization of agricultural activities in Swat: services and renumeration; Fig. 4: The caste composition of four Swat villages; Fig. 5: The hierarchy of castes in Swat.

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This book endeavours to test two opposing arguments about the meaning of the term caste.