Louis Dumont - Homo Hierarchicus: The Caste System and its Implications - London, Paladin/Granada Publishing Limited, 1972 - 1st printing in this format - 432p. - Softcover: polychrome illustrated paper binding with straight spine - 11.30x19.30cm (paperback format) - Good copy: some traces of use and wear to the cover, endpapers with some foxing spots, text block slightly discoloured with age but clean.

•      Louis Charles Jean Dumont (1911–1998) was a French anthropologist. He taught at Oxford University during the 1950s, and was then director of the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris. A specialist on the cultures and societies of India, Dumont also studied western social philosophy and ideologies. (Source: Wikipedia)
•      Information: Homo Hierarchicus: The Caste System and its Implications [originele uitgave: "Essai sur le système des castes" (1966)] is Louis Dumont's treatise on the Indian caste system. It analyses the caste hierarchy and the ascendancy tendency of the lower castes to follow the habits of the higher castes. This concept was termed as Sanskritisation by MN Srinivas. He states that the ideology of caste system is fundamentally contrary to our idea of egalitarian society and arises from the nature, conditions and limitations of realisation of such a society. We can not restrict ourselves to understand caste system only as a form of 'Social stratification'. (Source: Wikipedia)

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