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Homo Hierarchicus : The Caste System and Its Implications
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Homo Hierarchicus : The Caste System and Its Implications Paperback - 1981 - 2nd Edition

by Dumont, Louis

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  • Title Homo Hierarchicus : The Caste System and Its Implications
  • Author Dumont, Louis
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 2nd
  • Edition 2
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 540
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A
  • Date 1981-01-15
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 4728519-6
  • ISBN 9780226169637 / 0226169634
  • Weight 1.1 lbs (0.50 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.51 x 5.38 x 1.15 in (21.62 x 13.67 x 2.92 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Caste - India
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 80016480
  • Dewey Decimal Code 305.509

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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 influential work.

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This edition includes a lengthy new Preface in which Dumont reviews the academic discussion inspired by Homo Hierarchicus and answers his critics.

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