McKim Marriott is an
American
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anthropologist
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. Marriott received a PhD from the
University of Chicago
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in 1955.
Marriott has studied villagers and urbanites of Asia and professionals of Asia, including
Japan
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. He criticized Western categories which often present obstacles to understanding peoples, and he elaborated alternative models for studying differing cultural realities.
Selected publications
*1998 The female family core explored ethnosociologically. Contributions to Indian Sociology. 32: 279-304
*1997 A Description of SAMSARA, A Realization of Rural Hindu Life. Chicago: McKim Marriott.
*1992 Alternative social sciences. In J. MacAloon, ed., General Education in the Social Sciences. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, pp. 262–278.
*1991 On ‘Constructing an Indian ethnosociology’ Contributions to Indian Sociology. 25:295-308.
*1990 (Editor) India through Hindu Categories. New Delhi/Newbury Park/London: Sage Publications.
Further reading
*Review: India as a Philosophical Problem: Mckim Marriott and the Comparative Enterprise: India through Hindu Categories by McKim Marriott Review by: Edwin Gerow Journal of the American Oriental Society Vol. 120, No. 3 (Jul. - Sep., 2000), pp. 410–429
References
External links
Marriott at Worldcat
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Living people
University of Chicago alumni
American anthropologists
Year of birth missing (living people)