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Homo Hierarchicus: The Caste System and Its Implications (Nature of Human Society)
Louis Dumont
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Paperback. Translator(s): Sainsbury, M. Series: Nature of Human Society. Num Pages: 544 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 218 x 141 x 28. Weight in Grams: 622.
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.
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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.
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Product Details
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Number of pages
544
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1981
Series
Nature of Human Society
Condition
New
Number of Pages
540
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226169637
SKU
V9780226169637
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