Contested Hierarchies

David N. Gellner is Reader in Social Anthropology in the Department of Human Sciences, Brunel University. His books include Monk Householder and Tantric Priest : Newar Buddhism and its Hierarchy of Ritual and Contested Hierarchies : A Collaborative Ethnography of Caste among the Newars of the Kathmandu Valley.

Declan Quigley was previously at the Universities of Cambridge and Belfast.  He is now a member of the Department of Social Anthropology in St Andrews, Scotland, U.K.  He has edited with David Gellner, Contested Hierarchies: A Collaborative Ethnography of Caste in the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal.