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Brahman and Untouchable: The Transactional Ranking of American Geography Departments. Discussion Paper No. 10.

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Sopher, David E.; Duncan, James S. – 1975

The ranking of university geography departments based on hiring transactions is compared to the ranking of Indian village castes based on food transactions. Fifty-one geography departments were examined for the period 1960-1974 when 326 hiring transactions occurred. A study of caste ranking in a north Indian village by McKim Marriott and existing…

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