Limit search to available items
Book Cover
E-book
Author Das, Veena

Title Structure and cognition : aspects of Hindu caste and ritual / Veena Das
Edition 3rd ed
Published New Delhi ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012

Copies

Description 1 online resource
Series Oxford India perennials
Oxford India perennials
Summary Sociological analysis of Hindu caste & ritual has primarily been confined to the empirical study of local communities. In this work the author adds a new dimension by basing her data on an examination of selected myths in Puranic & Sutra literature, in particular the Dharmaranya Purana & the Grihya Sutra
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-183) and indexes
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on Aug. 15, 2012)
SUBJECT Gr̥hyasutras -- Criticism, interpretation, etc
Puranas. Dharmaranya Purana -- Criticism, interpretation, etc
Gr̥hyasutras. fast (OCoLC)fst01361523
Puranas. Dharmaranya Purana. fast (OCoLC)fst01362390
Subject Caste -- India.
Hinduism -- Rituals.
Caste.
Hinduism -- Rituals.
Kastväsen -- Indien.
India.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780199081172
0199081174