Product Description: This volume in the Oxford in India Readings in Sociology and Social Anthropology series is a well-rounded and rigourous analysis of the study of caste and hierarchy in India. The essays herein are a contextualized sociological appraisal of the work of Louis Dumont...read more

Product Description: This book provides an accessible introductory discussion of issues in Islamic law, justice, and society. At the center of the volume is a discussion of some interrelated theological, historical, legal, and practical issues facing Islamic law in such different countries and regions as Algeria, Morocco, South Africa, and South Asia...read more

Product Description: An AltaMira Press Book A critical anthropological study of contemporary India, this book explicates the cultural roles, presence and limitations of the ordinary, quotidian Indian. It also comments on the distinct challenges that tumultuous India poses to modern anthropology...read more

Product Description: This book discusses in richness and depth the problems that postmodern ideas and writings are currently going through. Writing and rewriting are central to the questions postmodern critique raises. Co-published with the Center for Advanced Studies.

Product Description: This book discusses in richness and depth the problems that postmodern ideas and writings are currently going through. Writing and rewriting are central to the questions postmodern critique raises. Co-published with the Center for Advanced Studies.

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Product Description: This volume throws the spotlight on India by examining Indo-American relations since India's independence some 35 years ago. The relationship has been marked both by warmth and mutual trust and by political conflict and disputes. Some of the reasons are geo-political, but others rest on cultural differences...read more

Product Description: The world of the Indian Untouchable is often invisible behind that of the dominant Hindu caste, but it is of no less significance for the understanding of contemporary Indian society. The Untouchables, like the caste Hindu, have been substantially affected by the political, economic and social changes that are occurring in independent India...read more

Product Description: The world of the Indian Untouchable is often invisible behind that of the dominant Hindu caste, but it is of no less significance for the understanding of contemporary Indian society. The Untouchables, like the caste Hindu, have been substantially affected by the political, economic and social changes that are occurring in independent India...read more

Product Description: Co-published with the Center for Advanced Studies at the University of Virginia, this volume is a study of leaders and leadership drawn from a broad spectrum of scholarship. Nineteen participants convened at the Birdwood Conference on Leadership in 1982, held by the Committee on the Comparative Study of Individual and Society...read more

Product Description: a study of certain culture properties of the Hindu system as it is of what kinship norms represent within this system.