Priests and Cobblers: A Study of Social Change in a Hindu Village in Western Nepal
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Edition
1st ed.
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ISBN
0700201963
Length
xiv+104p., Tables; Maps.
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This book is a study of the changing relations between members of the priestly caste (Brahmins) and a group of untouchables (Cobblers). The study covers a period of several decades up to the time of fieldwork at the end of the 1960s in a Hindu village in Western Nepal. From a position of almost total economic dependence on the priestly caste, the untouchables had become increasingly independent because of the new opportunities available in the expanding economy ...
