Caste and race : comparative approaches /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors:	Symposium on Caste and Race: Comparative Approaches London, England, Ciba Foundation
Other Authors:	De Reuck, Anthony V. S., Knight, Julie
Format:	Conference Proceeding eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London : J. & A. Churchill, 1967.
Series:	Ciba Foundation symposium.
Subjects:	Social classes > Congresses. Caste > Congresses. Race > Congresses. Race. Ethnology. Social history. Social classes. Caste. Social Class Racial Groups Ethnology Social Conditions Congress
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Caste, class and slavery : the taxonomic problem / Edmund Leach
Characterization of caste and class systems discussion social class
Caste : a phenomenon of social structure or an aspect of Indian culture? / Louis Dumont
Place of comparison in the study of caste systems discussion
Stratification, pluralism and interaction : a comparative analysis of caste / Gerald D. Berreman
Analogues and homologues of caste systems discussion cross-cultural aspects
Caste in India : its essential pattern of socio-cultural integration / Surajit Sinha
The historical approach to caste discussion
The pariah caste in Japan : history and present self-image / Hiroshi Wagatsuma
Pariah castes compared
Slavery in classical antiquity / Keith Hopkins
Classical and American slavery compared / Slavery and its aftermath in the Western Hemisphere / Stanley M. Elkins
Attitudes to slavery in the New World
Racism in Europe / L. Poliakov
Positive functions of minority groups
The myth of the demonic conspiracy of Jews in medieval and modern Europe / Norman Cohn
Stereotyped images of despised groups
Caste and race in the psychodynamics of acculturation / P.H.M. Raveau
Symbolic expression of racial tension
Psychology of purity and pollution as related to social self-identity and caste / George De Vos
Status anxiety and guilt in caste and modern societies
A comparative approach to caste and race.