David West Rudner
Biographic Data
| ID | 186261 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David West Rudner |
| GIVEN NAMES | David West |
| FAMILY NAME | Rudner |
| SIGNATURE | RUDNER D W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Harvard University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 54 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Re-Exhuming Dravidian Kinship: A Response to Parkin
Caste and Capitalism in Colonial India: The Nattukottai Chettiars
Caste and Capitalism in Colonial India: The Nattukottai Chettiars
David Rudner's richly detailed ethnographic and historical analysis of a South Indian merchant-banking caste provides the first comprehensive analysis of the interdependence among Indian business practice, social organization, and religion. Exploring noncapitalist economic formations and the impact of colonial rule on indigenous commercial systems, Rudner argues that caste and commerce are inextricably linked through formal and informal instituti…
Inquest on Dravidian Kinship: Louis Dumont and the Essence of Marriage Alliance
Banker's Trust and the Culture of Banking among the Nattukottai Chettiars of Colonial South India
The notion of 'banker's trust' has a paradoxical quality, like 'burning cold' or 'military intelligence.' Common sense (another paradoxical notion) tells us that bankers have no trust. Perhaps this explains the appeal of Marxist and Weberian assumptions that capitalist economies tend to destroy pre-capitalist social formations based on trust. From the classic perspective, 'primordial' social ties mandate relations of trust (or something like them…
Religious Gifting and Inland Commerce in Seventeenth-Century South India
sMost accounts of South Indian commerce in the seventeenth century depend on European documents and focus on Indo-European trade along the Malabar and Coromandel coasts. This article makes use of indigenous documents to analyze the way a caste of itinerant salt traders, the Nakarattars, combined worship and commerce in the interior of Tamil-speaking South India. It focuses on Nakarattar activities in the seventeenth century before they had achiev…
Banker's Trust and the Culture of Banking among the Nattukottai Chettiars of Colonial South India
The notion of 'banker's trust' has a paradoxical quality, like 'burning cold' or 'military intelligence.' Common sense (another paradoxical notion) tells us that bankers have no trust. Perhaps this explains the appeal of Marxist and Weberian assumptions that capitalist economies tend to destroy pre-capitalist social formations based on trust. From the classic perspective, 'primordial' social ties mandate relations of trust (or something like them…
Religious Gifting and Inland Commerce in Seventeenth-Century South India
sMost accounts of South Indian commerce in the seventeenth century depend on European documents and focus on Indo-European trade along the Malabar and Coromandel coasts. This article makes use of indigenous documents to analyze the way a caste of itinerant salt traders, the Nakarattars, combined worship and commerce in the interior of Tamil-speaking South India. It focuses on Nakarattar activities in the seventeenth century before they had achiev…
Inquest on Dravidian Kinship: Louis Dumont and the Essence of Marriage Alliance
Re-Exhuming Dravidian Kinship: A Response to Parkin
Caste and Capitalism in Colonial India: The Nattukottai Chettiars
Religious Gifting and Inland Commerce in Seventeenth-Century South India
sMost accounts of South Indian commerce in the seventeenth century depend on European documents and focus on Indo-European trade along the Malabar and Coromandel coasts. This article makes use of indigenous documents to analyze the way a caste of itinerant salt traders, the Nakarattars, combined worship and commerce in the interior of Tamil-speaking South India. It focuses on Nakarattar activities in the seventeenth century before they had achiev…
Banker's Trust and the Culture of Banking among the Nattukottai Chettiars of Colonial South India
The notion of 'banker's trust' has a paradoxical quality, like 'burning cold' or 'military intelligence.' Common sense (another paradoxical notion) tells us that bankers have no trust. Perhaps this explains the appeal of Marxist and Weberian assumptions that capitalist economies tend to destroy pre-capitalist social formations based on trust. From the classic perspective, 'primordial' social ties mandate relations of trust (or something like them…
Inquest on Dravidian Kinship: Louis Dumont and the Essence of Marriage Alliance
Caste and Capitalism in Colonial India: The Nattukottai Chettiars
David Rudner's richly detailed ethnographic and historical analysis of a South Indian merchant-banking caste provides the first comprehensive analysis of the interdependence among Indian business practice, social organization, and religion. Exploring noncapitalist economic formations and the impact of colonial rule on indigenous commercial systems, Rudner argues that caste and commerce are inextricably linked through formal and informal instituti…
Caste and Capitalism in Colonial India: The Nattukottai Chettiars
Re-Exhuming Dravidian Kinship: A Response to Parkin
Sociology (5 works) · History (4 works) · History (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (3 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Caste (3 works) · Colonialism (3 works) · Geography (3 works)