Homo Hierarchicus: The Caste System and its Implications
A Nonfiction, Anthropology, Cultural book. India lovers
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...
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What I originally thought was a very dry and irrelevant book to the area of anthropology (it's more of a sociological book), turned out to be an awesome book. It explains how the caste system in India works, and also explains how this is relevant to the wider world. It also explains just how important the caste system is within Indian... L'anthropologue franais Louis Dumont livre ici le fruit d'une recherche srieuse tale sur plus de vingt ans. Sa matrise documentaire est certaine avec des limites reconnues (la littrature d'aprs 1966 n'est pas couverte). Homo Hierarchicus est sa contribution la sociologie comparative des "idologies, ides et valeurs" des cultures ou socits,... India lovers
