Caste Ideology and Interaction
Following the publication of the book by E. R. Leach, ed., Aspects of Caste in South India, Ceylon and North-West Pakistan (1960), much additional information was gathered on caste hierarchies in South Asia, and two major attempts were made to identify the underlying unity of this material - a structuralist one by Louis Dumont and a ethnosocialogical one by McKim Marriott et al. This quest for unity seemed attractive, yet at the same time, as the contributions to the present volume indicate,...
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Introduction Dennis B. McGilvray; 1. Caste conundrums: Views of caste in a Sinhalese Catholic fishing village R. L. Stirrat; 2. Mukkuvar vannimai: Tamil caste and matriclan ideology in Batticaloa, Sri Lanka Dennis B. McGilvray; 3. Caste rank and verbal interaction in western Tamilnadu Stephen C. Levinson; 4. Caste and politics in India since 1947 Geoffrey Hawthorn.
