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European Academic and Popular Discourse on Caste: From the Orientalist Speculation to the Self-evident Truth

Autoři: Fárek Martin

Rok: 2018

Druh publikace: ostatní - přednáška nebo poster

Strana od-do: nestránkováno

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Jazyk	Název	Abstrakt	Klíčová slova
eng	European Academic and Popular Discourse on Caste: From the Orientalist Speculation to the Self-evident Truth	Starting with examples of current descriptions of caste system in European popular and academic discourse, this talk examined its several assumptions, going back to the Enlightenment speculaitons about early humans and their primitive religion. Despite enormous accumulation of evidence against the dominant idea of caste system being tight to early stage of Hinduism, this textbook story dominates many discussions today. One of the aims of the talk was to show a different route in analysis of caste as a social unit.	Caste; Orientalism; Theory; Priesthood; Religion; Hinduism; Origin of Religion