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India through Hindu categories /

Marriott McKim

India through Hindu categories / edited by McKim Marriott. - New Delhi ; Sage Publications, 1990. - xvi, 209 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. - Contributions to Indian sociology. Occasional studies ; 5 .

Preface / T.N. Madan -- Introduction / McKim Marriott -- Constructing an Indian ethnosociology / McKim Marriott -- Is there an Indian way of thinking? An informal essay / A.K. Ramanujan -- The original caste: power, history and hierarchy in South Asia / Nicholas B. Dirks -- Centrality, mutuality and hierarchy: shifting aspects of inter-caste relationships in north India / Gloria Goodwin Raheja -- Hindu periods of death 'impurity' / Diane Paull Mines -- Eating sins in Karimpur / Susan S. Wadley and Bruce W. Derr -- Humoral transactions in two Tamil cults: Murukan and Mariyamman / Manuel Moreno and McKim Marriott -- The Kerala house as a Hindu cosmos / Melinda A. Moore.

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