Product Description This new edition of Béteille's well-known work, Six Essays in Comparative Sociology, explores important topics in sociology and anthropology and relates them to contemporary Indian peasant society. Two new essays--"Marxism, Pluralism, and Orthodoxy" and "Is There a Marxist Anthropology?"--plusnew appendices on ethnosociology and concepts of the tribe, make the book more comprehensive and useful for students and scholars in a variety of fields. About the Author Andre Beteille, Professor of Sociology, University of Delhi, Fellow of the British Academy.