{"id":41734,"date":"2011-06-07T18:12:19","date_gmt":"2011-06-08T02:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brownpundits.com\/?p=3270"},"modified":"2011-06-07T18:12:19","modified_gmt":"2011-06-08T02:12:19","slug":"against-social-constructionism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2011\/06\/07\/against-social-constructionism\/","title":{"rendered":"Against social constructionism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My first post over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.harappadna.org\/2011\/06\/caste-is-not-ancestrally-arbitrary\/\"> HAP<\/a>. The theses of some scholars who argue for social construction of caste has obviously gone too far, but I do want to add that I suspect there&#8217;s a lot correct about specific details. For example, it seems possible that the class &#8220;Kayastha&#8221; broadly refers to groups which uplifted from the non-Brahmin substrate relatively across the Indo-Gangetic plain relatively recently. We will know soon, as the 1000 Genomes will release a lot of Bengali Kayastha results, and we can compare them to Santhals and other groups.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My first post over at HAP. The theses of some scholars who argue for social construction of caste has obviously gone too far, but I do want to add that I suspect there&#8217;s a lot correct about specific details. For example, it seems possible that the class &#8220;Kayastha&#8221; broadly refers to groups which uplifted from [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,4,998],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-genetics","category-harappa-ancestry-project"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41734"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41778,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41734\/revisions\/41778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}