South Indian Subcaste: Social Organization and Religion of the Pramalai Kallar - Louis Dumont - Hardcover - REV

This is the first English translation of the classic work by Louis Dumont, one of the premier anthropologists and social theorists of his generation. Dumont traces the history and distribution of the Pramalai Kallars of south India: their culture, agricultural practices, economic and political organization, and the collective representations embedded in their social organization and religion. This work is particularly noteworthy as a structuralist ethnography and as the first step in Dumont's construction of a comprehensive structuralist theory of traditional Indian society.Dumont, Louis is the author of 'South Indian Subcaste: Social Organization and Religion of the Pramalai Kallar - Louis Dumont - Hardcover - REV' with ISBN 9780195617856 and ISBN 0195617851.