Title: Caste, hierarchy, and individualism : Indian critiques of Louis Dumont's contributions
Abstract: FOREWORD (T.N. MADAN) PREFACE ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS INTRODUCTION: VALUE, OPPOSITIONS AND HIERARCHY: INDIAN DISCUSSIONS OF LOUIS DUMONT'S WORK SECTION I: OVERVIEWS AND REVIEWS 1. Louis Dumont and the Study of Society in India (T.N. Madan) 2. A Theory of 'Pure' Hierarchy (R.S. Khare) 3. Elementary Structure of Caste (Veena Das and J.P.S. Uberoi) 4. The Comparison of Civilizatations: Louis Dumont on India and the West (T.N. Madan) SECTION II: DIFFERENT EVALUATIONS 5. Some Reflections on the Nature of Caste Hierarchy (M.N. Srinivas) 6. On Individualism and Equality: Reply to Louis Dumont (Andre Beteille) 7. Continous Hierarchies and Discrete Castes (Dipankar Gupta) 8. Imagination against Typification (Dipankar Gupta) 9. Indo-Hierarchy Theory (Arun Bose) 10. Louis Dumont on Individualism (Arun Bose) 11. Indo-centric Theories in the Marxist Framework (Sudipta Kaviraj) 12. Hierarchy and Marriage Alliance in Indian Kinship (Patricia Uberoi) SECTION III: POST-COLONIAL COMMENTARIES 12. An Immanent Critique of Caste (Partha Chatterjee) 14. 'Is Homo Hierarchicus?' (Arjun Appadurai) 15. The Anthropological Discourse on India: Reason and Its Other (Veena Das) 16. Dumontian Sociology and Since: Challenges Facing South Asian Anthropology (R.S. Khare) SECTION IV: DUMONT IN HIS OWN WORDS 17. Change, Interaction, and Comparison (Louis Dumont) 18. On Individualism and Equality (Louis Dumont) 19. Louis Dumont and the Indian Mirror (Interviewer: Christian Delacampagne) 20. A Conversation with Louis Dumont (Interview by Jean-Claude Galey) EPILOGUE REFERENCES INDEX: CONTRIBUTORS
Publication Year: 2006
Publication Date: 2006-01-01
Language: en
Type: book
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