Homo Hierarchicus
| Title | Homo Hierarchicus
the caste system and its implications |
|---|---|
| Author | Louis Dumont |
| Publication | Paladin |
| Size | 432p |
| Language |  ENG |
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| Topics |
Anthropology--India Anthropology--Cultural and social Casteism Castes--India India--Social conditions |
| Notes | 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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