HIERARCHY AND ITS DISCONTENTS CULTURE AND THE POLITICS OF CONSCIOUSNESS IN CASTE SOCIETY STEVEN M. PARISH Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2019 with funding from Kahle/Austin Foundation https://archive.org/details/hierarchyitsdiscOOOOpari Hierarchy and Its Discontents Hierarchy and Its Discontents Culture and the Politics of Consciousness in Caste Society Steven M.'Parish PENN University of Pennsylvania Press Philadelphia DSM°\3 -°t .KJH P3vo Icftfc, Copyright © 1996 by the University of Pennsylvania Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Parish, Steven M Hierarchy and its discontents : culture and the politics of consciousness in caste society / Steven M. Parish, p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-8122-3313-1 (alk. paper). — ISBN 0-8122-1551-6 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Newar (Nepalese people) —Social life and customs. 2. Caste—Nepal—Bhaktapur. 3. Hinduism—Nepal—Bhaktapur. 4. Bhaktapur (Nepal)—Social conditions. I. Title. DS493.9.N4P36 1996 306'.089'95—dc20 96-3608 CIP To Rita