Structure and Cognition: Aspects of Hindu Caste and Ritual - Couverture souple

Das, Veena

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0198077408 ISBN 13 : 9780198077404

Editeur : OUP India, 2012

Synopsis

Sociological analysis of Hindu caste and ritual has primarily been confined to the empirical study of local communities. In this classic work, the author adds a new dimension to such analysis by basing her data on an examination of selected myths in Puranic and Sutra literature, in particular the Dharmaranya Purana and the Grihya Sutra, going thereby to the sources of the ideology that have given local communities their particular shape and character. The book places the discussion in the wider setting of discussions on Hinduism. This original approach, bridging the gulf that divides Indology from Sociology, resolves many questions that had previously defied definitive explanation, and charts a fruitful alternative direction for future sociological inquiry.

The Third Edition comes includes a new Preface by the author.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Veena Das is Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Anthropology at the Johns Hopkins University, USA.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: OUP India
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0198077408
• ISBN 13: 9780198077404
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 3
• Nombre de pages: 312
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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