Caste Ideology and Interaction, Volume 9Dennis B. McGilvray 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, premature. The four papers collected here and published in 1982 are all concerned with caste ideology and caste interaction in different locales of South Asia. |
Contents
Tamil caste and matriclan ideology | 34 |
Caste rank and verbal interaction | 59 |
Caste rank and verbal interaction in western Tamilnadu 886 | 98 |
Economic dependencies among castes | 103 |
TV universes the five major types | 117 |
Scaled usage implications of verbal status markers | 127 |
Rank by Vgiving | 133 |
Giving and receiving compared | 139 |
Ranks on a variety of nonlinguistic media | 155 |
Minimatrix illustrating hypothetical Varna strategies | 166 |
Net ranks by Vgiving and receiving | 179 |
REL to superiors and inferiors | 184 |
Ranks in linguistic and nonlinguistic media | 200 |
Caste and politics in India since 1947 | 204 |
Notes | 221 |
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