Natural Hierarchies The Historical Sociology

This original and provocative text provides an approach to understanding the emergence and development of social rank through race and caste. The struggles we face in race and ethnic relations today are explored through anthropological, historical and sociological lenses to understand the roots of social hierarchy drawing on examples from the Indian subcontinent, the Caribbean, and mainland America.

Chris Smaje is a Lecturer of Sociology at the University of Surrey. He holds degrees in anthropology, health policy, and sociology, and his research interests span the fields of medical sociology and the comparative historical sociology of race and colonialism. He is a member of the editorial boards of the journals Ethnic and Racial Studies and Sociology of Health and Illness.

Preface

vii

Race, Caste, and Hierarchy

1

(34)

Race and Caste as Natural Hierarchies

1

(3)

Race

4

(8)

Caste

12

(11)

Hierarchy

23

(6)

History and Ambivalence: A Place in the Sociological Debate

29

(6)

Theoretical Constructions

35

(45)

Introduction

35

(1)

Essentialism and Anti-essentialism

36

(4)

Structure

40

(12)

Culture, Practice, and Symbol

52

(17)

History

69

(9)

Conclusion

78

(2)

Economic and Political Formations

80

(52)

Introduction

80

(6)

European Capitalism, Indian Capitalism?

86

(10)

Political Formations

96

(31)

Nations and Citizenries

127

(5)

Race, Slavery, and Colonialism

132

(30)

Introduction

132

(1)

Slavery

133

(15)

Race and Colonial Society

148

(4)

Race and Political Thought in Early Modern Europe

152

(10)

Race, Caste, and the Person

162

(41)

Introduction

162

(1)

Race, Caste, and Kinship

163

(14)

Caste, Kinship, and Gender in India

177

(10)

Race, Kinship, and Gender in the Caribbean

187

(16)

Race, Caste, and the Nation

203

(43)

Introduction

203

(1)

Race and Creolization in the Caribbean

204

(24)

Caste, Communalism, and the Nation in Contemporary India

228

(18)

Hierarchy and Politics

246

(14)

Hierarchy and a Sociology of Politics

246

(10)

Hierarchy and a Politics of Sociology

256

(4)

References

260

(22)

Index

282

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Natural Hierarchies The Historical Sociology of Race and Caste

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