Interview with Andre Beteille

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Authors
Beteille, Andre
Macfarlane, Alan
Jacobs, Julian
Publication Date
2004-08-23
Language
en_GB
Type
Video
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Beteille, A., Macfarlane, A., & Jacobs, J. (2004). Interview with Andre Beteille [Video file]. http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/716
Description
Interviewed by Alan Macfarlane on 1st June 1986, filmed by Julian Jacobs and lasting 1 hour 20 minutes.
Abstract
Andre Beteille speaks of his childhood and natural inclination to anthropology, his training, fieldwork in Dehli and the influence of his supervisor, M.N. Srinivas. His work on equality and inequality in human societies and publications on such, esp the caste system. He relflects on and analyses the work of Dumont, as well as Marxism, Hinduism and Islam. He cites those who have influenced him and his work, and closes with an overview of his current interests in Nationalism and tribal identities in India, as well as his lectures on backward classes.
Keywords
religion, caste, power, India
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This record's URL: http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/716