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Homo Hierarchicus

The Caste System and Its Implications

Louis Dumont M. Sainsbury

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French
University of Chicago Press
15 January 1981
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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Imprint:   University of Chicago Press
Country of Publication:   United States
Edition:   Second Edition, Revised
Dimensions:   Height: 22mm,  Width: 14mm,  Spine: 3mm
Weight:   680g
ISBN:   9780226169637
ISBN 10:   0226169634
Series:   Nature of Human Society NHS
Pages:   540
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Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  A / AS level ,  Further / Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

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