364 pages, with 19 plates and 12 figures, a Fine hardback in a near-fine dust-jacket - a book in the Oxford Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology series [0198279604].

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Title: Contested Hierarchies: A Collaborative Ethnography of Caste in the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal [Oxford Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology]
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication Date: 1995
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0198279604
ISBN 13: 9780198279600
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Near Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

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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 sociolog

About the Author

David N. Gellner is a Lecturer in Social Anthropology at Brunel University. Declan Quigley is a Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the Queen's University of Belfast.

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