...William McCormack Hierarchy and Marriage Alliance in South Indian Kinship . By Louis Dumont . (Occasional Papers of the Royal Anthropological Institute, No. 12.) London : Royal Anthropological Institute , 1957 . 45 . 14 figures. 10 s. $1.50. Une sous-caste de l'Inde du Sud...

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...Lanfranco Blanchetti-Revelli From a Shattered Sun: Hierarchy, Gender, and Alliance in the Tanimbar Islands . By Susan McKinnon . Madison : University of Wisconsin Press , 1991 . xvii, 324 pp. $37.00 (cloth); $16.50 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1994...

...Bruce McCoy Owens Monk, Householder, and Tantric Priest: Newar Buddhism and Its Hierarchy of Ritual . By David N. Gellner . Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology. Cambrige : Cambridge University Press , 1992 . xxiii, 428 pp. $79.95. Copyright © The Association...

...Darrell Y. Hanamoto The New Chinese America: Class, Economy, and Social Hierarchy . By Xiaojian Zhao . New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press , 2010 . xiii , 201 pp. $60.00 (cloth); $23.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2010 2010 Author...

... that of the Hindus? 41 Further discussion of this and of the subject of n.40 will be found in Fruzzetti 1976. VOL. XXXV, No. 4 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES AUGUST 1976 Hierarchy Purified: Notes on Dumont and His Critics STEVE BARNETT LINA FRUZZETTI AKOS OSTOR The importance of Louis Dumont's work both...

...Pauline Kolenda Abstract I began the work of this paper by trying to specify the different kinds of “hierarchy” that Louis Dumont uses in Homo Hierarchicus . Such an inventory, I thought, might be helpful to those who find the book difficult to read. Unexpectedly, in the course of the exercise, I...

...McKim Marriott From Hierarchy to Stratification: Changing Patterns of Social Inequality in a North Indian Village . By D. B. Miller . Delhi : Oxford University Press , 1975 . xviii, 229 pp. Tables, Maps, Diagrams, Plates, Notes, Bibliography, Glossary, Index. Rs. 60; $9.75 Copyright ©...

...Steven Kemper Absent Lord: Ascetics and Kings in a Jain Ritual . By Lawrence A. Babb . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1996 . xii, 244 pp. $48.00 (cloth); $16.00 (paper). Hierarchy and Its Discontents: Culture and the Politics of Consciousness in Caste Society...

...Ann Kumar Hierarchy, History, and Human Nature: The Social Origins of Historical Consciousness . By Donald E. Brown . Tucson : University of Arizona Press , 1988 . x , 384 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1989 1989 Book Reviews ASIA GENERAL Hierarchy...

...S. O. Robson Solo in the New Order: Language and Hierarchy in an Indonesian City . By James T. Siegel . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 1987 . viii , 338 pp. $35.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1989 1989 684 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES fluence...

... : Princeton University Press . Taylor Romeyn . 1976 . “ Ming T'ai-tsu and the Nobility of Merit .” Ming Studies 2 : 57 – 69 . Taylor Romeyn . 1977 . “ Ming T'ai-tsu and the Gods of Walls and Moats .” MingStudies 4 : 31 ' 50 . Taylor Romeyn . 1986 . “Hierarchies of Value in Chinese...

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...Paul G. Hiebert Caste, Cult, and Hierarchy: Essays on the Culture of India . By Pauline Kolenda . Meerut : Folklore Institute , 1981 . viii, 350 pp. Rs. 125 (Distributed by Manohar Book Service, New Delhi, India.) Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1986 1986 BOOK...

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...Donald A. Messerschmidt The Caste Hierarchy and the State in Nepal: A Study of the Muluki Ain in 1854 . By András Höfer . Innsbruck : Universitätsverlag Wagner (Khumbu Himal: Ergebnisse des Forschungsunternehmens Nepal Himalaya, Band 13/2), 1979 . 215 pp. Appendixes, Bibliography...

...Doranne Jacobson I Give Thee My Daughter: A Study of Marriage and Hierarchy among the Anavil Brahmans of South Gujarat . By Klaas W. van der Veen . Assen, Netherlands : Van Gorcum & Company N.V. , 1972 . 297 pp. Appendices, Glossary, Bibliography, Index, dfl. 47.50. Copyright ©...

... conflict often involving Maoists since the 1990s. Parties channeled these efforts and helped lower status-groups secure extensive benefits in Kerala. Lee believes that public support for caste hierarchy declined dramatically after independence as a result of democratization, the abolition of colonial...

...Michael AungThwin VOL. 46, No. 2 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES MAY 1987 Communications to the Editor On a Review of Centers, Symbols, and Hierarchies: Essays on the Classical States of Southeast Asia Kenneth R. Hall has failed to understand clearly Centers, Symbols, and Hierarchies: Essays...

...Kenneth R. Hall Centers, Symbols, and Hierarchies: Essays on the Classical States of Southeast Asia . Edited by Lorraine Gesick . Foreword by Clifford Geertz. New Haven, Conn. : Yale University , 1983 . (Southeast Asia Studies Monograph Series, no. 26.) x, 241 pp. $13 (paper). Copyright...