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An Untouchable Community in South India - Structure and Consensus (Paperback)
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An Untouchable Community in South India - Structure and Consensus (Paperback)
Series: Princeton Legacy Library
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While many studies suggest that Indian Untouchables do not entirely
share the hierarchical values characteristic of the caste system,
Michael Moffatt argues that the most striking feature of the lowest
castes is their pervasive cultural consensus with those higher in
the system. Though rural Untouchables question their particular
position in the system, they seldom question the system as a whole,
and they maintain among themselves a set of hierarchical
conceptions and institutions virtually identical to those of the
dominant social order. Based on fourteen months of fieldwork with
Untouchable castes in two villages in Tamil Nadu, south India,
Professor Moffatt's analysis specifies ways in which the
Untouchables are both excluded and included by the higher castes.
Ethnographically, he pursues his structural analysis in two related
domains: Untouchable social structure, and Untouchable religious
belief and practice. The author finds that in those aspects of
their lives where Untouchables are excluded from larger village
life, they replicate in their own community nearly every
institution, role, and ranked relation from which they have been
excluded. Where the Untouchables are included by the higher castes,
they complete the hierarchical whole by accepting their low
position and playing their assigned roles. Thus the most oppressed
members of Indian society are often among the truest believers in
the system. Originally published in 1979. The Princeton Legacy
Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make
available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished
backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the
original texts of these important books while presenting them in
durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton
Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly
heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton
University Press since its founding in 1905.
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