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Nat Hiers de Smaje

Nat Hiers

Autor Smaje
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 6 iul 2000
This original and provocative text provides an approach to understanding the emergence and development of social rank through race and caste. The struggles we face in race and ethnic relations today are explored through anthropological, historical and sociological lenses to understand the roots of social hierarchy drawing on examples from the Indian subcontinent, the Caribbean, and mainland America.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780631209492
ISBN-10: 0631209492
Pagini: 302
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.44 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Wiley
Locul publicării:Chichester, United Kingdom

Public țintă

upper–level undergraduate and graduate students in sociology, anthropology, cultural/postcolonial studies and history courses

Notă biografică

Chris Smaje is a Lecturer of Sociology at the University of Surrey. He holds degrees in anthropology, health policy, and sociology, and his research interests span the fields of medical sociology and the comparative historical sociology of race and colonialism. He is a member of the editorial boards of the journals Ethnic and Racial Studies and Sociology of Health and Illness.

Cuprins

List of Figures. Preface.
Part I: Race, Caste, and Hierarchy.
1. Race and Caste as Natural Hierarchies.
2. Race.
3. Caste.
4. Hierarchy.
5. History and Ambivalence: a Place in the Sociological Debate.
Part II: Theoretical Constructions.
6. Introduction.
7. Essentialism and Anti-essentialism.
8. Structure.
9. Culture, Practice, and Symbol.
10. History.
11. Conclusion.
Part III: Economic and Political Formations.
12. Introduction.
13. European capitalism, Indian Capitalism?.
14. Political formations.
15. Europe.
16. India.
17. Nations and Citizenries.
Part IV: Race, Slavery, and Colonialism. .
18. Introduction.
19. Slavery.
20. Race and colonial society.
21. Race and Political Thought in Early Modern Europe.
Part V: Race, Caste and the Person. .
22. Introduction.
23. Race, Caste and Kinship.
24. Caste, kinship, and Gender in India.
25. Race, Kinship, and Gender in the Caribbean.
Part VI: Race, Caste and the Nation. .
26. Introduction.
27. Race and the Creolization in the Caribbean.
28. Euro-creole.
29. Afro-creole.
30. Caudillismo.
31. Caste, communalism, and the Nation in Contemporary India.
Part VII: Hierarchy and Politics. .
32. Hierarchy and a Sociology of Politics.
33. Hierarchy and a Politics of Sociology.
References.
Index.

Descriere

This volume traces the emergence and development of social rank in our present day world. It looks at ideas of hierarchy in the light of the historical, anthropological and sociological evidence to generate understanding of present-day struggles in race and ethnic relations.