
Structure and Cognition, Third Edition
Aspects of Hindu Caste and Ritual
Veena Das(Author)
OUP India (Publisher)
3rd Edition
Published on 26. July 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
312 pages
978-0-19-807740-4 (ISBN)
Description
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.
The Third Edition comes includes a new Preface by the author.
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Series
Edition
3rd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
New Delhi
India
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Revised edition
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 142 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
249 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-807740-4 (9780198077404)
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Previous edition
Book
07/1992
OUP India
€11.13
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Person
Veena Das is Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Anthropology at the Johns Hopkins University, USA.
Content
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