Structure and Cognition

Aspects of Hindu Caste and Ritual
3rd Auflage
ISBN: 978-0-19-807740-4
Verlag: Hurst & Co.

Buch, Englisch, 312 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 142 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 249 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Das, Veena

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Soziale Gruppen & Klassen
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Hinduismus Hinduismus: Leben & Praxis, Soziale Aspekte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Preface to the Third Edition

- Preface to the Second Edition

- Preface to the First Edition

- Note on Transliteration

- 1. Introduction

- 2. On the Categories: Brahman, King, and Sanyasi

- 3. Of Jatis

- 4. Concepts of Space

- 5. The Sacred and the Profane in Hinduism

- Epilogue

- Appendix 1

- Appendix 2

- References, Index

Über Autor(innen)

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