Institutions and Inequalities Essays in Honour of Andre Beteille

1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-19-807552-3
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 312 Seiten, Format (B × H): 216 mm x 142 mm, Gewicht: 299 g

Original essays dedicated to Béteille, a leading Indian sociologist
Essays based on fieldwork and archival research
Comparative perspective from Asia and Europe
Contributors are well-known and distinguished academics

This is a collection of original essays written in honour of André Béteille, an outstanding sociologist and social anthropologist. Based on intensive fieldwork and archival research, the settings vary from a steel plant in Madhya Pradesh to temples in Tamil Nadu. Discussing themes and arguments from the oeuvre of André Béteille, the book focuses on individuals as well as social classes or communities and inequalities set in India, China, Russia, Japan, and England. Dealing with the relationship between institutions and inequalities, the essays move from studies of changing patterns of stratification through an analysis of agrarian structure to assessments of policies of protective discrimination. Exploring various themes in Béteille's work, such as the place of the individual in Indian history, the functioning of institutions in civil society, and the threats to secularism, the volume also relocates him in the great tradition of comparative social theory.

Zielgruppe

This book will interest students and scholars of sociology, social anthropology, and those interested in social change, issues of power and inequality, and comparative sociology.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Guha, Ramachandra

Parry, Jonathan P

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gewalt und Diskriminierung: Soziale Aspekte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Notes on Contributors
1: The Career and Credo of André Béteille (Ramachandra Guha)
2: The Brahmins and Brahminical Values in Modern Tamil Nadu (C. J. Fuller)
3: The Fate of Earlier Social Ranking in the Communist Regimes of Russia and China (Caroline Humphrey)
4: The Economist's Approach to Agrarian Structure (Pranab Bardhan)
5: The Indian Census, Identity and Inequality (Nandini Sundar)
6: Two Cheers for Reservation: The Satnamis and the Steel Plant (Jonathan P. Parry)
7: Renunciation from Below (Vinay Kumar Srivastava)
8: Heterodox Lives: Agnostic Individuality and Agency in South Indian History (Mattison Mines)
9: Civil Society or the State: What Happened to Citizenship? (Dipankar Gupta)
10: Ghettoization and Communal Politics: The Dynamics of Inclusion and Exclusion in the Hindutva Landscape (Jan Breman)
11: André Béteille and Alexis de Tocqueville (Alan Macfarlane).

Über Autor(innen)

Guha, Ramachandra
Ramachandra Guha is of India's best-known historians, and a full-time author and columnist.

Parry, Jonathan P
Jonathan P. Parry is Emeritus Professor of Anthropology, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Ramachandra Guha is of India's best-known historians, and a full-time author and columnist. Jonathan P. Parry is Emeritus Professor of Anthropology, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Contributors:
Pranab Bardhan is Professor of Economics, University of California, Berkeley.; Jan Breman is Professor Emeritus, University of Amsterdam.; C. J. Fuller is Emeritus Professor of Anthropology, London School of Economics and Political Science.; Ramachandra Guha is one of India's best-known historians, and a full-time author and columnist.; Dipankar Gupta is retired Professor of Sociology, Jawaharlal Nehru University.; Caroline Humphrey is Director of Research, Department of Social Anthropology and a Fellow of King's College, University of Cambridge.; Alan Macfarlane is Professor of Anthropology, University of Cambridge.; Mattison Mines is Professor Emeritus, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Barbara.; Jonathan P. Parry is Emeritus Professor of Anthropology, London School of Economics and Political Science.; Vinay Kumar Srivastava is Principal, Hindu College University of Delhi.; Nandini Sundar is Professor & Head, Department of Sociology, University of Delhi.