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Anthropological enquiry is best done by attending equally to both social and cultural material. This is the view propounded here by Marvin Davis, who uses such an holistic approach to develop an original perspective on hierarchy and politics in rural Bengal. In the first part of the book, Professor Davis describes the indigenous theory of rank held by Hindus in rural West Bengal and shows that the premise of inequality is a central organising principle of their entire society and cosmos. In the
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- Author
- Davis, Marvin , 1944-
- Publisher
- Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York: Cambridge University Press
- Published
- 1983
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780521288804
- Category
- social science
- Subjects
- Anthropology, Cultural & Social, Social_sciences
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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