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@article{Todd1977CasteIA,
title={Caste in Africa?},
author={Diane M. Todd},
journal={Africa},
year={1977},
volume={47},
pages={398 - 412},
url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:144428371}
}Opening Paragraph Eminent Indologists have stated that it is inappropriate to use the word ‘caste’ in non-Hindu contexts. Despite such warnings numerous Africanists have used the term, with varying degrees of imprecision. In this paper I first outline different emphases which have appeared in the literature concerning caste in India; then discuss several examples of hierarchical systems in Africa which have been described as ‘caste’. Finally, I focus upon my own fieldwork data concerning the…