Author : Jonathan P. Parry
Publisher : London ; Boston : Routledge & Paul
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 16,80 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
Based On Research Carried Out Amongst The People Of The Kangra Hills In North-West India, This Study Has Been Welcomed As A Major Addition To The Understanding Of Problems Of Social Ineqauality And The Nature Of Caste And Kinship.
Author : Jonathan P. Parry
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 37,78 MB
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1136545921
This study is a major addition to understanding the problems of social inequality and the nature of caste and kinship. A full account is given of the social structure of the region, emphasizing the continuity of principles, which govern relations between castes and relationships within castes. The ethnographic data bear in particular on: the nature of untouchability; models of caste ranking; the way in which 'traditional' family structures adapt to a diversification of the economy and the debate about the 'instability' of regimes of generalized exchange. Originally published in 1979.
Author : André Béteille
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 42,43 MB
Release : 2012-04-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0199088721
In Caste, Class and Power, André Béteille recounts the gradual transformation of a social system that, till the end of the nineteenth century, was structured primarily on distinctions of caste—between the Brahmins, the middle-level non-Brahmins and the Adi-Dravidas. Based on extensive field study carried out in a South Indian village, the book presents the different ways of studying the themes of caste and class.
Author : D K Chaudhary
Publisher : Notion Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 22,24 MB
Release : 2017-11-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1948147548
The Ghrits inhabiting the Kangra Valley is a demographic uniqueness of the Kangra hills. An ICS officer in 1848 described the Ghrits (Ghirath) physiognomy as peculiar to the Kangra hills. Throughout the country this caste is found only in Kangra hills of Himachal Pradesh. Many people believe that Ghrit is a puranic caste and the Ghrits are the original inhabitants of Trigarta of the Mahabharta period, which also led to locate the Trigarta in Kangra. However, the aboriginality of the Ghrits in Kangra has not been supported by any fact and it is based just on the surmises and suppositions. In the present work the origin of the Ghrit caste has been traced with the help of physiognomic, historical, sociological and linguistic facts supported by art forms, traditions, culture, occupation etc. The long standing controversy about the right place of the Ghrit caste in the four Varnas has also been settled with the help of historical facts. This book gives an insight about the physiognomy, nature, religious beliefs, occupation etc. of the Ghrits in detail. It also provides an opportunity to the urban populace of this caste to know about their culture and traditions which are fast disappearing due to technological advancements and changing pursuits for livelihood among the youth.
Author : Lindsey Harlan
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 26,1 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Hinduism
ISBN : 0195081188
Providing a unique and intimate view of Hindu marriage, the essays in this collection explore points at which the margins of marriage are traversed or transgressed. Rather than focus on normative expectations within marriage, they examine times in which norms are tested or rejected. Using stories, songs, and narrated accounts, the essays treat such topics as widowhood, adultery, levirate, divorce, and suttee, as well as the subversion of marriage by devotion to deities and by alternative constructions of conjugal duty and marital experience.
Author : Surinder S. Jodhka
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 689 pages
File Size : 37,36 MB
Release : 2023-10-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0198896719
The Oxford Handbook of Caste brings together a wide range of essays encompassing various academic disciplines to lay the foundations for a new understanding of caste, capturing emerging research trends, imaginations, and the lived realities of caste.
Author : Ladislav Holý
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 19,20 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Cross-cousin marriage
ISBN : 9780719028908
Author : Dipankar Gupta
Publisher : Penguin Books India
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 23,91 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Caste
ISBN : 9780140297065
The caste system has conventionally been perceived by scholars as a hierarchy based on the binary opposition of purity and pollution. Challenging this position, leading sociologist Dipankar Gupta argues that any notion of a fixed hierarchy is arbitrary and valid only from the perspective of the individual castes. The idea of difference, and not hierarchy, determines the tendency of each caste to keep alive its discrete nature and this is also seen to be true of the various castes which occupy the same rank in the hierarchy. It is, in fact, the mechanics of power, both economic and political, that set the ground rules for caste behaviour, which also explains how traditionally opposed caste groups find it possible to align in the contemporary political scenario. With the help of empirical evidence from states like Bihar, Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh, the author illustrates how any presumed correlations between caste loyalties and voting patterns are in reality quite invalid. Provocative and finely argued, Interrogating Caste is a remarkable work that provides fresh insight into caste as a social, political and economic reality.
Author : Robert Parkin
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 50,83 MB
Release : 2021-07-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1800731671
Using some of his landmark publications on kinship, along with a new introduction, chapter and conclusion, Robert Parkin discusses here the changes in kinship terminologies and marriage practices, as well as the dialectics between them. The chapters also focus on a suggested trajectory, linking South Asia and Europe and the specific question of the status of Crow-Omaha systems. The collection culminates in the argument that, whereas marriage systems and practices seem infinitely varied when examined from a very close perspective, the terminologies that accompany them are much more restricted.
Author : Andrew Dawson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 23,83 MB
Release : 2003-12-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1134749244
This collection addresses the theme of representation in anthropology. Its fourteen articles explore some of the directions in which contemporary anthropology is moving, following the questions raised by the "writing culture" debates of the 1980s. It includes discussion of issues such as: * the concept of caste in Indian society * scottish ethnography * how dreams are culturally conceptualised * representations of the family * culture as conservation * gardens, theme parks and the anthropologist in Japan * representation in rural Japan * people's place in the landscape of Northern Australia * representing identity of the New Zealand Maori.
