Caste, Hierarchy, and Individualism

Indian Critiques of Louis Dumont's Contributions
Herausgeber: Khare, R S

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume, part of the OIRSSA series, examines the issue of caste through Indian responses to the path breaking work of Louis Dumont. It will feed into courses on Indian sociology across universities. A new epilogue discusses relevant sociological and anthropological disciplinary debates, and crucial changes therein.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 211mm x 137mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 363g
• ISBN-13: 9780198062776
• ISBN-10: 019806277X
• Artikelnr.: 28022188

Autorenporträt

R.S. Khare is Professor of Anthropology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA

Inhaltsangabe

* Foreword (T.N. Madan); Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction:
Value, Oppositions and Hierarchy: Indian Discussions of Louis
Dumont's Work;
* SECTION I: OVERVIEWS AND REVIEWS;
* 1.: Louis Dumont and the Study of Society in India (T.N. Madan);
* 2.: A Theory of 'Pure' Hierarchy (R.S. Khare);
* 3.: Elementary Structure of Caste (Veena Das and J.P.S. Uberoi);
* 4.: The Comparison of Civilizatations: Louis Dumont on India and the
West (T.N. Madan);
* SECTION II: DIFFERENT EVALUATIONS;
* 5.: Some Reflections on the Nature of Caste Hierarchy (M.N.
Srinivas);
* 6.: On Individualism and Equality: Reply to Louis Dumont (André
Béteille);
* 7.: Continous Hierarchies and Discrete Castes (Dipankar Gupta);
* 8.: Imagination against Typification (Dipankar Gupta);
* 9.: Indo-Hierarchy Theory (Arun Bose);
* 10.: Louis Dumont on Individualism (Arun Bose);
* 11.: Indo-centric Theories in the Marxist Framework (Sudipta
Kaviraj);
* 12.: Hierarchy and Marriage Alliance in Indian Kinship (Patricia
Uberoi);
* SECTION III: POST-COLONIAL COMMENTARIES;
* 12.: An Immanent Critique of Caste (Partha Chatterjee);
* 14.: 'Is Homo Hierarchicus?' (Arjun Appadurai);
* 15.: The Anthropological Discourse on India: Reason and Its Other
(Veena Das);
* 16.: Dumontian Sociology and Since: Challenges Facing South Asian
Anthropology (R.S. Khare);
* SECTION IV: DUMONT IN HIS OWN WORDS;
* 17.: Change, Interaction, and Comparison (Louis Dumont);
* 18.: On Individualism and Equality (Louis Dumont);
* 19.: Louis Dumont and the Indian Mirror (Interviewer: Christian
Delacampagne);
* 20.: A Conversation with Louis Dumont (Interview by Jean-Claude
Galey);
* Epilogue; References; Index: Contributors