Structure and Cognition

Aspects of Hindu Caste and Ritual
3rd Auflage
ISBN: 978-0-19-807740-4
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA

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

Reihe: Oxford India Perennials Series

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

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

Über Autor(innen)

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