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The French anthropologist rejects the ethnocentric concepts underlying Western sociology to provide a new analysis of the roots, function, and social organization of India's caste system
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This edition includes a lengthy new Preface in which Dumont reviews the academic discussion inspired by Homo Hierarchicus and answers his critics.
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HOMO HIERARCHICUS : THE CASTE SYSTEM AND ITS IMPLICATIONS
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University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1980
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