Homo Hierarchicus

Author : Louis Dumont
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226169637

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Homo Hierarchicus by Louis Dumont Pdf

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.

Author : Louis Dumont
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Caste
ISBN : OCLC:79397762

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Homo Hierarchicus by Louis Dumont Pdf

Author : Marshall Sahlins
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226162157

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Islands of History by Marshall Sahlins Pdf

Marshall Sahlins centers these essays on islands—Hawaii, Fiji, New Zealand—whose histories have intersected with European history. But he is also concerned with the insular thinking in Western scholarship that creates false dichotomies between past and present, between structure and event, between the individual and society. Sahlins's provocative reflections form a powerful critique of Western history and anthropology.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Caste
ISBN : OCLC:462421211

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Homo hierarchicus by Anonim Pdf

Author : Nicholas B. Dirks
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2011-10-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781400840946

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Castes of Mind by Nicholas B. Dirks Pdf

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.

Author : Ravindra S. Khare
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : History
ISBN : 052126314X

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The Untouchable as Himself by Ravindra S. Khare Pdf

This book is a study of the new frame of mind of the Indian Untouchable.

Author : Louis Dumont
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1845451473

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An Introduction to Two Theories of Social Anthropology by Louis Dumont Pdf

Louis Dumont, who died in 1998, was one of the most important figures in post-war French anthropology. He is well-known for his early work on India, which culminated in Homo Hierarchicus (1966; in English 1972, 1980), an anthropological account of the caste system. He later extended this work into a comparison of the values of Indian and western society in works like Essays on Individualism (1986) and German ideology: From France to Germany and Back (1994). He is also known for pioneering work on kinship in south India and more generally (for example Affinity as a Value, 1983). The current volume represents the fruits of this side of his activities and originated in as a series of lectures providing an account of the British and French schools for students. Robert Parkin is a Departmental Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Oxford. He has a longstanding interest in the anthropology of kinship, represented by Kinship: an Introduction to Basic Concepts (1997) and Kinship and Family: n Anthropological Reader (2004, edited with Linda Stone). He has also published a full-length study of Dumont in the same Berghahn series (Louis Dumont and hierarchical opposition, 2003).

Author : Susan Bayly
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2001-02-22
Category : History
ISBN : 0521798426

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Caste, Society and Politics in India from the Eighteenth Century to the Modern Age by Susan Bayly Pdf

One of the most powerful statements ever written on the subject of caste in India.

Author : Louis Dumont
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1970-01-01
Category : Caste
ISBN : 0226169596

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Homo Hierarchicus by Louis Dumont Pdf

Author : Jason Hickel,Naomi Haynes
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781785339981

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Hierarchy and Value by Jason Hickel,Naomi Haynes Pdf

Globalization promised to bring about a golden age of liberal individualism, breaking down hierarchies of kinship, caste, and gender around the world and freeing people to express their true, authentic agency. But in some places globalization has spurred the emergence of new forms of hierarchy—or the reemergence of old forms—as people try to reconstitute an imagined past of stable moral order. This is evident from the Islamic revival in the Middle East to visions of the 1950s family among conservatives in the United States. Why does this happen and how do we make sense of this phenomenon? Why do some communities see hierarchy as desireable? In this book, leading anthropologists draw on insightful ethnographic case studies from around the world to address these trends. Together, they develop a theory of hierarchy that treats it both as a relational form and a framework for organizing ideas about the social good.

Author : T. N. Madan
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publishe
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 8120805275

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Way of Life by T. N. Madan Pdf

Author : Wendy James,N. J. Allen
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1571817034

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Marcel Mauss by Wendy James,N. J. Allen Pdf

Presents results of a September 1996 conference held at Oxford University, re-evaluating the importance of the writings and inspiration of Marcel Mauss, the nephew and younger colleague of Emile Durkheim. Explores not only the context of Mauss' work and his influence on other writers, but also the resonance of some of his key themes for the concerns of today's anthropology and sociology. Papers are arranged in sections on the scholar and his time, foundations of Maussian anthropology, critiques of exchange and power, and materiality, body, and history. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : SurinderS. Jodhka
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351572613

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Caste in Contemporary India by SurinderS. Jodhka Pdf

Caste is a contested terrain in India's society and polity. This book explores contemporary realities of caste in rural and urban India. Presenting rich empirical findings across north India, it presents an original perspective on the reasons for the persistence of caste in India today.

Author : Gloria Goodwin Raheja
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1988-06
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0226707288

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The Poison in the Gift by Gloria Goodwin Raheja Pdf

The Poison in the Gift is a detailed ethnography of gift-giving in a North Indian village that powerfully demonstrates a new theoretical interpretation of caste. Introducing the concept of ritual centrality, Raheja shows that the position of the dominant landholding caste in the village is grounded in a central-peripheral configuration of castes rather than a hierarchical ordering. She advances a view of caste as semiotically constituted of contextually shifting sets of meanings, rather than one overarching ideological feature. This new understanding undermines the controversial interpretation advanced by Louis Dumont in his 1966 book, Homo Hierarchicus, in which he proposed a disjunction between the ideology of hierarchy based on the "purity" of the Brahman priest and the "temporal power" of the dominant caste or the king.

Author : André Celtel
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2004-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789203769

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Categories of Self by André Celtel Pdf

Drawing on anthropological, socio-psychological, religious, and philosophical material, this book engages in a discussion of what it means to be an ‘individual’ in relation to notions of selfhood, personality, and social role. This theme is explored with reference to the investigations of Louis Dumont into Hindu and other Indian ideologies, and with regard to the dominant threads of Western individualism. Clarifying and at times building upon his analyses, the author follows Dumont in a consideration of Indian ideology (Hindu non-individualism, the ‘dividual’, social personhood); French ideology (sociopolitical individualism); German ideology (subjective individualism); and Western ideology (the Christian beginnings of individualism, political and economic individualism, the philosophical ‘categorisation’ of self). While most commentators have tended to focus primarily on one aspect of Dumont's work – either his views on Indian hierarchy or writings on modern individualism – the author reveals considerable continuity throughout Dumont’s entire oeuvre based around the notion of 'categories' and the concept of the 'individual’. Dumont’s intellectual background is explored with reference to the Durkheimian tradition, with Marcel Mauss being highlighted as the principal architect in his thinking. In particular, Dumont’s interest in the ‘category of the individual’ is shown to be an extension of Mauss’s concern with the ‘category of the person’. The distinctiveness of Dumont’s structuralist approach is thrown into full relief through comparison with that of others acknowledging an intellectual dept to Mauss, namely, Claude Lévi-Strauss and Fernand Braudel. The book covers an assessment of general approaches to the study of individualism, with the relevant perspectives of other thinkers discussed and related to Dumont’s approach as appropriate.