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Homo Hierarchicus: the Caste System and its Implications (Revised English
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Homo Hierarchicus: the Caste System and its Implications (Revised English Edition) Paperback - 1980 - 2nd Edition

by Louis Dumont

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Chicago, IL: The University Of Chicago Press. Very Good+. 1980. Revised English Edition (1980); Sixtrh Printing Thus (1995); Third Printing. Paperback. Very Good+ to Near Fine in Wraps: shows a hint of toning to the backstrip and around the outside edges of the white background field of the panels; a couple of tiny, faint spots at the top edge of the text block ; else flawless; the binding is square and secure; the text is clean. Free of creases to the panels. Free of creases to the backstrip. Free of creased or dog-eared pages in the text. Free of underlining, hi-lighting, notations, or marginalia. Free of any ownership names, dates, addresses, notations, inscriptions, stamps, plates, or labels. A handsome nearly-new copy, structurally sound and tightly bound; showing minor cosmetic imperfections. Clean. Close to 'As New'. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club or Ex-Library. 8vo. (8.5 x 5.35 x 1.2 inches) . Translated by Mark Sainsbury, the author, and Basia Gulati. Language: English. Weight: 22 ounces. Revised English Edition (1980) ; Third Printing Thus (1986) . University Press Paperback. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; li, 490 pages .
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  • Title Homo Hierarchicus: the Caste System and its Implications (Revised English Edition)
  • Author Louis Dumont
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 2nd
  • Edition Revised English Edition (1980); Sixtrh Printing Thus (1995); Thi
  • Condition Used - Very Good+
  • Pages 540
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher The University Of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL
  • Date 1980
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 58286
  • 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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