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Record Nr.

UNINA9910830825203321

Titolo

Caste and race [[electronic resource] ] : comparative approaches / / edited by Anthony de Reuck and Julie Knight

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : J. & A. Churchill, 1967

ISBN

1-280-59019-X

9786613620026

0-470-71950-8

0-470-71704-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (362 p.)

Collana

Ciba Foundation volume

Altri autori (Persone)

De ReuckAnthony V. S

KnightJulie

Disciplina

301.44

Soggetti

Social classes

Caste

Race

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

CASTE AND RACE: Comparative Approaches; Preface; CONTENTS; Membership of symposium; Chairman's introduction; 1 Caste, class and slavery: the taxonomic problem; 2 Characterization of caste and class systems; 3 Caste: a phenomenon of social structure or an aspect of Indian culture?; 4 Place of comparison in the study of caste systems; 5 Stratification, pluralism and interaction: a comparative analysis of caste; 6 Analogues and homologues of caste systems; 7 Caste in India: its essential pattern of socio-cultural integration; 8 The historical approach to caste

9 The pariah caste in Japan: history and present self-image10 Pariah castes compared; 11 Slavery in classical antiquity; 12 Classical and American slavery compared; 13 Slavery and its aftermath in the western hemisphere; 14 Attitudes to slavery in the New World; 15 Racism in Europe; 16 Positive functions of minority groups; 17 The myth of the demonic conspiracy of Jews in medieval and modern Europe; 18 Stereotyped images of despised groups; 19 Caste and race in the psychodynamics of acculturation; 20 Symbolic expression of racial



tension

21 Psychology of purity and pollution as related to social self-identity and caste22 Status anxiety and ''guilt" in caste and modern societies; 23 A comparative approach to caste and race; Index of contributors; Index of authors cited; Index of subjects