Book
Caste, class, and power: changing patterns of stratification in a Tanjore village
University of California Press • Berkeley • Published In 1971 • Pages:
By: Béteille, André Marie.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Changes in the traditional structures of caste, class, and power in Sripuram, a village in Tanjore district, are the subjects of this study. The author describes the physical structure of the village, the caste structure, economic organization and social class, and the distribution of power. He shows that traditionally the hierarchies of caste, class, and power overlapped considerably, but that '… the processes of economic change and political modernization have led the productive system and the organization of power to acquire an increasing an increasing degree of autonomy. In the concrete, the overlap between the hierarchies of caste, class, and power has been progressively reduced' (p. 225).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Castes
- Classes
- Agriculture
- Community structure
- Real property
- Renting and leasing
- Towns
- Community councils
- Political parties
- Elections
- Sociocultural trends
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Tamil
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2009
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Asia
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- South Asia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Marlene Martin
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1961-1962
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1961-1962
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- village of Sripuram, Tanjore District, India
- NotesAdditional notes
- By By André Béteille
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 226-228)
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Tamil (Indic people)