16 Facts About Harald Tambs-Lyche

Harald Tambs-Lyche was born on 1946 and is a Norwegian ethnologist and social anthropologist.

Harald Tambs-Lyche worked at the University of Bergen as a lecturer of social anthropology and retired as a professor of ethnology from the University of Picardy Jules Verne.

Harald Tambs-Lyche did his master's in 1972 with the thesis titled "London Patidars" and his Ph.

Harald Tambs-Lyche is a professor emeritus of ethnology at the University of Picardy Jules Verne in Amiens, France.

Between starting of the 1970s and August 1972, Harald Tambs-Lyche conducted field research on the "life and actions" of Gujarati Patidars living in London who had moved in Britain in the 1960s.

Harald Tambs-Lyche did anatomization of the Patidar's "mercantile ideology" and proffered that it distinguishes these immigrants from the British people and "constitutes the major element in the construction of an ethnic boundary".

Harald Tambs-Lyche participated as an associate fellow in the project "History and Theory of the Anthropology of India" which was convened by Peter Berger at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands.

Harald Tambs-Lyche developed interest in "history and theory of caste" and worked on the subject with a focus on Gujarat's Saurashtra region.

Harald Tambs-Lyche studied "the changing constellations of caste" in the region with regard to the period from 800 CE to the British Raj and in the present-day society "from an interactional point of view".

Harald Tambs-Lyche did research on the goddess cult and Swaminarayan sect in Gujarat and highlighted the socioeconomic changes in the Gujarati society, which according to him, were responsible for the rise in prominence of vegetarian male deities at the expense of the goddess who was associated with "blood and meat".

Harald Tambs-Lyche gives an example of the goddess Ashapura who became "vegetarian and non-violent" and is worshipped in Gujarat's Kachchh region.

Harald Tambs-Lyche studied "the relations caste identity entertains to ethnicity and class in a situation where all three are salient" in a study on Karnataka's Gaud Saraswat Brahmins.

Harald Tambs-Lyche's Power, Profit, and Poetry: Traditional Society in Kathiawar, Western India is a study of the social changes that took place in Gujarat's Kathiawar from the early medieval period to the turn of the 19th century.

Harald Tambs-Lyche's Transaction and Hierarchy: Elements for a Theory of Caste is a study of the Indian society and its caste system from historical and sociological perspectives.

Harald Tambs-Lyche praised Dumont for his "effort to formulate a sociological as well as cultural theory of the castes" and criticized him "for having generalized a Brahmano-centric model of the caste system".

University of Lausanne's Raphael Rousseleau noted that Harald Tambs-Lyche initially "[distinguished] various forms of kingship" in northern and southern India from the medieval and modern period by drawing on the approach of Burton Stein, and later introduced his personal "historical schematization" as well.