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Contested Hierarchies: A Collaborative Ethnography of Caste among the Newars of the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal (Oxford Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology)
David N. Gellner
Declan Quigley
Hardcover. Oxford University Press, USA 1995-11.
ISBN 9780198279600
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Publisher description
The urban civilization of the Newars of the Kathmandu Valley provides a
paradigm for the study of caste and Hindu kingship. In this book, six
anthropologists, in a genuinely collaborative international endeavour, pool
their knowledge of the three ancient Newar cities of Kathmandu, Lalitpur, and
Bhaktapur, and settlements nearby. The social institutions of all the main case
groups - priests, patrons, artisans, farmers, and low castes - are given
extended consideration, and the study is framed by a historical introduction
and a comparative conclusion. In addition, it is well illustrated with
fascinating black and white photos which have been specially taken to
illustrate aspects of the society under study. The result is the most complete description and analysis yet of a regional
caste system. Located within wider theoretical debates surrounding the nature
of caste, the book should appeal not only to students of Hinduism and South
Asia, but to all anthropologists and comparative sociologists interested in the
interrelations of politics, ritual, kinship, economy, and ideology in complex,
pre-industrial societies. This book is intended for scholars and advanced students of anthropology
and sociology interested in caste, Hinduism, and the South Asian and Himalayan
regions; also comparative sociologists interested in preindustrial cities. This collective study of the urban civilization of the Newars of the
Kathmandu Valley, Nepal, provides a comprehensive account of a regional caste
system. It describes the perspectives of low caste members as well as high,
artisans as well as priests, Buddhists as well as Hindus.
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