Caste Ideology and Interaction

Klappentext The four papers collected here and published in 1982 are all concerned with caste ideology and caste interaction in different locales of South Asia. Zusammenfassung The four papers collected here and published in 1982 are all concerned with caste ideology and caste interaction in different locales of South Asia. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

Product details

• Authors: Dennis B. McGilvray
• Assisted by: Dennis B. McGilvray (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.03.2009
• EAN: 9780521105002
• ISBN: 978-0-521-10500-2
• No. of pages: 268
• Series: Cambridge Papers in Social Ant
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology