Harald Tambs-Lyche

Transaction and Hierarchy

Elements for a Theory of Caste

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Produktbeschreibung

In this volume, the author challenges a number of widely held cultural stereotypes about India. Caste is not as old as Indian civilization itself, for caste has evolved throughout its history. It is not a colonial invention, nor does it result from weak state control. There is no single form of Indian kingship, and power relations, fundamental a

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 386
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Juni 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm
• Gewicht: 712g
• ISBN-13: 9781032652658
• ISBN-10: 1032652659
• Artikelnr.: 70114946

Autorenporträt

Harald Tambs-Lyche studied at the University of Bergen, Norway and at SOAS, London. Following work on the Indian diaspora (London Patidars, 1980) he worked extensively on religion and society in Saurashtra, Gujarat (Power, Profit and Poetry, 1997; The Good Country, 2004). Since the 1990s he has worked on the Gauda Saraswat Brahmins of South Kanara (Business Brahmins, 2011), and is currently working, with his wife Marine Carrin, on a monograph on that region. Tambs-Lyche has co-authored, edited or co-edited several other books, and is the author of a large number of papers on Indian religion and society. He retired as professor of Ethnology, University of Picardie at Amiens, France, in 2013.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Precepts and Preliminaries The Enigma of Caste
Three Objections
Theories of Caste to 1950
Early Sociology and G.S. Ghurye
Village Studies
Louis Dumont: An Integrated Theory of Caste
Alternative Approaches to Meaning: Marriott and the Chicago Indianists
Debating Caste: From the 1960s to the 1980s
From the 1980s to the Third Millennium
Where do we Stand Now?
Can we Still Talk of Different 'Cultures' ?
Is Anthropology a 'Eurocentric' Science?
My Own Voice 2. From History to the Individual The Plan of the Book
Can we Construct a History of Caste?
Is there an Indian Brand of Individualism?
The 'Modernist' Individual
Individualist Discourses
Towards an Indian Conception of the Individual 3. From Individual to Community Interaction in India and the West
On the Buses
In Train Compartments
Learning from Interaction
Inside
Outside and Among Communities
Caste
Family and the 'We'
Conceptions of Family
'Inside' and 'Outside'
The Diversity of Castes as Forms of Community
Castes Traditionally Employed in Agriculture
Ex-untouchables in Farming and Other Occupations
Artisans and Other Specialist Castes
Brahmins and Priestly Castes
General Remarks 4. Estates
History and the Village Alternative Perspectives on Caste Society: the Estates
Other Estates
Brahmins and Untouchables
Ways of Living Together: Historicity and Power in the Village
Power and History in Small Villages: Saurashtra and Rajasthan
Relative Autonomy: Hamlets in the Periphery of Saurashtra 5. Integration
Hierarchy and Power Integration and Hierarchy in a Large
Saurashtra Village: Praj
Feudal Fiefs and Mosaic Patterns in South Kanara
Descendants of Pioneers in the Bangladesh Sundarbans
Brahmadeya Villages of Tamil Nadu
Power and Violence
The Moneylender and the Peasant
Custom as Politics
Caste in Modern Politics: South Kanara
Politics of Caste in Gujarat 6. Kings and Urban Society Regional Authority and the Role of the King
Forms of Kingship: Gujarat and Northern India
Kingship in South India
A Tentative Typology of Indian Kingship
Urban Life: Power and Community
Pre-colonial Towns of Tamil Nadu
Vijayanagar in the Sixteenth Century
Surat
the Port of the Mughals
Temple Towns or Ritual Centres
Udupi: From Temple Centre to the Modern Town
Power and Community in the Towns of Gujarat
Ahmedabad
Bombay: Metropolis with a Communitarian Structure
Calcutta and Other Metropolitan Centres
Caste and Urban Structure 7. Abstractions and Models Urban Life: Community and Cosmopolitanism
Towards an Abstract Order
Indigenous Models of Indian Society
Abstract Models and Social Dynamics Overarching Indigenous Models: The Brahmin Model
The King-centered Model
The Merchant Model
A Western Model of Stratification
Alternative Models of Western Society
Contesting the Holistic Models
The Models Subalterns Use
Hegemony and Subaltern Thought
Indigenous Models Today 8. A Discourse that Structures Hegemony Caste and Hinduism
Is There a Hindu Pantheon?
A Historical Approach: Rise and Fall of the Gods
The Question of Integration through Ritual
Hierarchy Re-defined as Discourse
From Inequality to Hierarchy
Discourse as Assertion
Hierarchizing Discourse: An Example from Religion
Defining Hierarchizing Discourse
Inclusion or Separation: A Debate about Goddesses
Hierarchizing Discourses on Kingship
Discourse
Models and Hegemony
Dominant and Contesting Discourses
Discou