Power, purity and pollution

Frédérique Apffel Marglin

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South Asian Studies and Diaspora Indian and Buddhist Studies Weber, Simmel, Sociological Theory

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La place et la signification du pouvoir dans la societe hindoue, a partir d'une critique du travail de L. Dumont qui constitue la premiere analyse structurale du systeme des castes en Inde. Les concepts de sacre et de seculier existent-ils dans la societe indienne? Le concept hindou de dharma. Pouvoir et theorie des Varnas (castes), et fondement de leur hierarchie. Regles de comportement concernant la purete et la pollution et leur rapport aux notions de statut et de pouvoir.

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