Williams Faculty Lecture Series 2025 – Joel Lee, On the Art of Caste Concealment
Joel Lee, Associate Professor of Anthropology and author of Deceptive Majority: Dalits, Hinduism and Underground Religion, examines caste structures. The social form is ingrained throughout much of South Asia, remaining inescapable in practice: you cannot change the caste into which you are born. But is there room for clandestine maneuver?
