Natural Hierarchies: The Historical Sociology of Race and Caste / Edition 1

Natural Hierarchies: The Historical Sociology of Race and Caste / Edition 1

by Chris Smaje
ISBN-10:
0631209492
ISBN-13:
9780631209492
Pub. Date:
07/13/2000
Publisher:
Wiley
ISBN-10:
0631209492
ISBN-13:
9780631209492
Pub. Date:
07/13/2000
Publisher:
Wiley
Natural Hierarchies: The Historical Sociology of Race and Caste / Edition 1

Natural Hierarchies: The Historical Sociology of Race and Caste / Edition 1

by Chris Smaje

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Overview

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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ISBN-13: 9780631209492
Publisher: Wiley
Publication date: 07/13/2000
Pages: 302
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

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.

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