Homo hierarchicus

by Louis Dumont

This Modern Classic, Here Presented In An Enlarged, Revised And Corrected Second Edition, Simultaneously Supplies The Reader With The Most Cogent Statement On The Indian Caste System And Its Organizing Principles And A Provocative Advance In The Comparison Of Societies On The Basis Of Their Underlying Ideologies.

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