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India : an anthropological perspective / [by] Stephen A. Tyler

Third Printing. Very good copy in the colour-printed boards. Remains well-preserved overall. Physical description; 224 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-217) and index. Contents; Introduction. India in perspective. Personal character ; Geographic background ; Races of India ; Language. Formation of Indian culture. Prehistorical cultures. The Stone Age ; Peasant villages and proto-cities ; The Indus civilization ; The rebirth of cities ; Neolithic cultures -- The orthodox pattern. The Vedic paradigm ; The ritual paradigm of the Brahmanas ; The monistic reduction of the Upanisads -- The heterodox challenge. Jainism ; Buddhism ; Carvaka -- The Hindu synthesis. The six systems of philosophy ; The social order ; Hinduism. Contemporary social organization. Tribes and peasants. Tribes ; Peasants -- Family and kinship. The joint family ; Extended kin groups ; Affinals and consanguineals ; Secondary patterns ; Divorce ; Change -- The caste system. Purity and pollution ; The logic of hierarchy ; Varna and jati ; The "interactional" theory ; The a-priori ground of hierarchy ; The exploitative argument ; Power and hierarchy ; The jajmani system ; Commensality and connubiality ; Asymmetry and change. Subjects; Ethnology India. Civilization. Ethnology. Anthropology India. India. 1 Kg. Artikel-Nr. 489912

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