ISBN:
0198077408
Language:
English
Pages:
XXII, 189 S
,
graph. Darst
Edition:
3. ed.
Series Statement:
Oxford India perennials
DDC:
305.51220954
Keywords:
Puranas Criticism, interpretation, etc
;
Gr̥hyasutras Criticism, interpretation, etc
;
Caste
;
Hinduism Rituals
;
Ethnologie
;
Indien
Abstract:
Sociological analysis of Hindu caste and ritual has primarily been confined to the empirical study of local communities. In this classic work, the author adds a new dimension to such analysis by basing her data on an examination of selected myths in Puranic and Sutra literature, in particular the Dharmaranya Purana and the Grihya Sutra, going thereby to the sources of the ideology that have given local communities their particular shape and character. The book places the discussion in the wider setting of discussions on Hinduism. This original approach, bridging the gulf that divides Indology from Sociology, resolves many questions that had previously defied definitive explanation, and charts a fruitful alternative direction for future sociological inquiry
Note:
Literaturverz. S.[173] - 183
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