Structure and Cognition
Aspects of Hindu Caste and Ritual
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3964230 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Richard W Lariviere |
| Year | 1987 |
| Volume | 107 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 837 |
| Publication date | 1987-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | REVIEW |
| Review of | Structure and Cognition: Aspects of Hindu Caste and Ritual, Veena Das, 2012 |
| Venue | Journal of the American Oriental Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-0279 • E-ISSN: 2169-2289 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/603376 |
| OpenAlex | W2086926661 |
| Language | EN |
This is a paperback reissue of the second edition of Structure and Cognition, first published in 1977, when it won the prestigious Ghuyre Award for Sociology. Departing from the conventional empirical studies of local communities, it draws its data from original sources in Puranic and Sutra literature. Sociologists; students of Hinduism and Sanskrit
Caste · Cognition · Hinduism · Linguistics · Sociology · Anthropology · Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation · History · Indian and Buddhist Studies · Philosophy · Psychology · Religious studies · South Asian Studies and Conflicts
Ethics, the householder's dilemma, and the difficulty of reality
TheŚrāddha
Mandirand visa status
Iogues indianos nas fronteiras do conhecível
The muddy semiotics of mud
Goddesses dancing in the city
Kingship and ‘contrapriests’
Why do backward castes need their own gurus? The social and political significance of new caste-based monasteries in Karnataka
Good-death Beliefs and Cognition in Himalayan Pilgrimage
Hindu cosmology and the orinetation and segregation of social groups in villages in northwestern india
Gender, religious change and sustainability in Bangladesh
King and warrior
Existe un sistema de castas
Money matters
Subaltern Biology? Local Biologies, Indian Odysseys, and the Pursuit of Human Embryonic Stem Cell Therapies
Toward a semiotics of "purity" and "pollution" in India
India
The Relics of the Buddha and the Elixir of Immortality – Mythological Parallels
Jains, caste and hierarchy in north Gujarat
Brahmin, king and bhakta in a temple in Tamil Nadu
Auspiciousness and Purity
Manṁgalmayīmā, Sumanṁgalī, Manṁgal
Low caste but middle-class
The Hindu Lexicographer? A Note on Auspiciousness and Purity
Division and hierarchy
The King's Order
The renouncer
Brahmin, King, Sannyasi, and the Goddess in a Cage
The Proof of the Bone
The Kerala House as a Hindu Cosmos
Indian Sociology and the Cultural Other
The Sociology of Hinduism
Who is a Brahmin in Singapore
Recast(e)ing Identity
On the Place of Culture in Psychological Science
A Sense of Belonging and Exclusion
Cultural Orientations, Institutional Entrepreneurs, and Social Change
Consuming Children
Domestic Space as Ideology in Goa, India
For a Sociology of Indias
Hindu Periods of Death 'Impurity
Illness, Inauspiciousness and Modes of Healing in Rajasthan
Poles apart? From Wrestling and Mallkhāmb to Pole Yoga
Yoga and fetishism
An Interview with M. N. Srinivas
The Virgin and the Clown Ritual Elaboration in Pakistani Migrants' Weddings
Renunciation in the Religious Traditions of South Asia
Putting Hierarchy in Its Place
Renunciation feminised? Joint renunciation of female-male pairs in Bengali Vaishnavism
The Goddess Śītalā and Epidemic Smallpox in Bengal
Disciplining the Body, Disciplining the Body-Politic
Ghosts, Greed and Sin
Hierarchical Models of the Hindu Social System
Language of Sacrifice
Death and Digestion
Gods, Priests and Purity
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |