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India through Hindu categories / edited by McKim Marriott.

By: Contributor(s): Series: Contributions to Indian sociology. Occasional studies ; ; 5Publication details: New Delhi ; Sage Publications, 1990.Description: xvi, 209 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 8170361761 (hbk)
  • 9788170361763
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.4 MAR
Contents:
Preface / T.N. Madan -- Introduction / McKim Marriott -- Constructing an Indian ethnosociology / McKim Marriott -- Is there an Indian way of thinking? An informal essay / A.K. Ramanujan -- The original caste: power, history and hierarchy in South Asia / Nicholas B. Dirks -- Centrality, mutuality and hierarchy: shifting aspects of inter-caste relationships in north India / Gloria Goodwin Raheja -- Hindu periods of death 'impurity' / Diane Paull Mines -- Eating sins in Karimpur / Susan S. Wadley and Bruce W. Derr -- Humoral transactions in two Tamil cults: Murukan and Mariyamman / Manuel Moreno and McKim Marriott -- The Kerala house as a Hindu cosmos / Melinda A. Moore.
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Preface / T.N. Madan -- Introduction / McKim Marriott -- Constructing an Indian ethnosociology / McKim Marriott -- Is there an Indian way of thinking? An informal essay / A.K. Ramanujan -- The original caste: power, history and hierarchy in South Asia / Nicholas B. Dirks -- Centrality, mutuality and hierarchy: shifting aspects of inter-caste relationships in north India / Gloria Goodwin Raheja -- Hindu periods of death 'impurity' / Diane Paull Mines -- Eating sins in Karimpur / Susan S. Wadley and Bruce W. Derr -- Humoral transactions in two Tamil cults: Murukan and Mariyamman / Manuel Moreno and McKim Marriott -- The Kerala house as a Hindu cosmos / Melinda A. Moore.