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Klappentext This book endeavours to test two opposing arguments about the meaning of the term caste. Zusammenfassung When this book was originally published in paperback in 1971! one of the most debated themes in Indian sociology was the meaning of the term caste. At one extreme was the argument that caste cannot be isolated from its religious matrix; on the other! that it is a rigid form of social class hierarchy. This book tested these two hypotheses against the data. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contributors to this issue; Note on the spelling of caste names; Preface; Introduction: what should we mean by caste? E. R. Leach; Caste in a Tanjore village E. Kathleen Gough; Caste in Jaffna Michael Banks; The flexibility of caste principles in a Kandyan community Nur Yalman; The system of social stratification in Swat, North Pakistan Fredrik Barth; Bibliography; Map 1: General map showing the location of Tanjore, Jaffna, 'Terutenne' and Swat; Map 2: Map of Tanjore district; Map 3: Sketch-map of Kumbapettai; Map 4: Map of Ceylon; Fig. 1: Kinship diagram: the Potters of Terutenne; Fig. 2: Castes and occupations in Worejo; Fig. 3: The organization of agricultural activities in Swat: services and renumeration; Fig. 4: The caste composition of four Swat villages; Fig. 5: The hierarchy of castes in Swat.
