Screen LibraryDimensions of social life : essays in honor of david g. mandelbaum /
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De Gruyter Mouton,
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| Publisher Address: | Berlin ;Boston : |
| Publication Dates: |
[2011] ©1987 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New babylon ;
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110846850 http://www.degruyter.com/doc/cover/9783110846850.jpg |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (710pages). |
| ISBN: | 9783110846850 |
| Index Number: | GN325 |
| CLC: | C912.4 |
| Contents: |
Frontmatter -- Foreword -- List of Tables -- List of Diagrams -- David Mandelbaum and the Rise of South Asian Studies: A Reminiscence -- David G. Mandelbaum: Fifty Years of Scholarship, 1936-1986 -- I Family, Kinship and Personhood -- Authority, Power and Autonomy in the Life Cycle of the North Indian Woman -- Living the Levirate: the Mating of an Untouchable Chuhra Widow -- Life History: Nonconformity and the Syntax of Metaexperience -- The Psychodynamics of Nayar Family Life: the Matrilineal Puzzle Re-examined -- The Armenian Godfather Complex -- Of Siblings and Cousins: Some Notes on Toda Kinship in the Light of Recent Writings -- II Old Tribes and New -- Single Persons and Social Cohesion in a Hunter-Gatherer Society -- Death Comes to an American Indian Tribe -- The Lahushi Bakio: Birth of a New THbe -- II Culture Areas and Cultural themes -- Transcendental and Folk Aspects of Judaism -- Houses with Centered Courtyards in Kerala and Elsewhere in India -- The Right Hand is the 'Eating Hand': an Indian Areal Linguistic Inqui ry -- Yankee City in Renaissance -- IV Investigating Health and Development -- The Impact of Social and Economic Development on Mortality: a Comparative Study of Kerala and West Bengal -- The Chipko Movement in the Indian Himalayas -- Urbanization and Social Change Concepts and Techniques -- Investigating Back Pain: the Implications of Two Village Studies in South Asia -- Western Economists in South Asia: Some Afterthoughts on an Experience -- Quarry and Field: Sources of Continuity and Change in a Rajasthani Village -- "Mental" in "Southie": Individual, Family and Community Responses to Psychosis in South Boston -- V Caste in India -- Early Evidence for Caste in South India -- Untouchability, the Untouchables and Social Change in Gujarat -- The Denial of Caste in Modern Urban Parlance -- The Caste System and its Future -- VI Stratification and Ethnicity -- Ethnic Group Distribution and Political Influence |