{"product_id":"homo-hierarchicus-louis-dumont-9780226169637","title":"Homo Hierarchicus: The Caste System and Its Implications","description":"Louis Dumont's modern classic, here presented in an enlarged, revised, and corrected second edition, simultaneously supplies that reader with the most cogent statement on the Indian caste system and its organizing principles and a provocative advance in the comparison of societies on the basis of their underlying ideologies. Dumont moves gracefully from the ethnographic data to the level of the hierarchical ideology encrusted in ancient religious texts which are revealed as the governing conception of the contemporary caste structure. On yet another plane of analysis, \u003ci\u003ehomo hierarchicus\u003c\/i\u003e is contrasted with his modern Western antithesis, \u003ci\u003ehomo aequalis\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This edition includes a lengthy new Preface in which Dumont reviews the academic discussion inspired by \u003ci\u003eHomo Hierarchicus\u003c\/i\u003e and answers his critics. A new Postface, which sketches the theoretical and comparative aspects of the concept of hierarchy, and three significant Appendixes previously omitted from the English translation complete this innovative and influential work.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Louis Dumont\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0226169634\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226169637\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/15\/1981\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 540\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.51h x 5.38w x 1.15d","brand":"Louis Dumont","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44119453597951,"sku":"9780226169637","price":46.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4a4a331f-82ec-4053-a944-51c3f2df1111.jpg?v=1687409439","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/homo-hierarchicus-louis-dumont-9780226169637","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}