11.15           The young Mauss: Vedic sacrifice and primitive classification.

Nick Allen (ISCA, Oxford)

12.30           Lunch

13.30          Durkheimian sociology and the experience of the Hindu caste system. Reconsidering the intellectual legacy of the disciplinary encounter between Indology and sociology

Robert Lardinois (CNRS, CSHS New Delhi)

14.45          Ritualistic Asia: from Marcel Granet's ethnography of ancient China to Paul Mus' iconology of Southeast Asia.

Yves Goudineau (EFEO, MFO Oxford)

16.00          Tea