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Concepts of person : kinship, caste, and marriage in India / edited by Ákos Östör, Lina Fruzzetti, and Steve Barnett ; contributors, Ákos Östör ... [et al.].

Contributor(s): Östör, Ákos | Fruzzetti, Lina | Barnett, Steve, 1941-Material type: TextTextSeries: Harvard studies in cultural anthropology ; 5Publication details: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1982. Description: xiv, 271 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: 0674157656Subject(s): Kinship -- India -- Congresses | Marriage customs and rites -- India -- Congresses | Caste -- India -- Congresses | India -- Social life and customs -- CongressesDDC classification: 306.8 LOC classification: GN635.I4 | C68 1982
Contents:
The cultural construction of the person in Bengal and Tamilnadu / Lina Fruzzetti, Ákos Östör, and Steve Barnett -- Bad blood in Bengal / Lina Fruzzetti and Ákos Östör -- Forms of address in the north Indian family / Sylvia Vatuk -- The ideology of the householder among the Kashmiri pandits / T.N. Madan -- Hierarchy and the concept of the person in western India / Anthony T. Carter -- From Kanyā to Mātā / R.S. Khare -- Widowhood among "untouchable" chuhras / Pauline Kolenda.
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306.8 OSC 1982 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available Raisa 50859

Based on papers discussed at a conference held at Harvard University, Dec. 10-13, 1976.

Includes index.

Bibliography: p. [249]-264.

The cultural construction of the person in Bengal and Tamilnadu / Lina Fruzzetti, Ákos Östör, and Steve Barnett -- Bad blood in Bengal / Lina Fruzzetti and Ákos Östör -- Forms of address in the north Indian family / Sylvia Vatuk -- The ideology of the householder among the Kashmiri pandits / T.N. Madan -- Hierarchy and the concept of the person in western India / Anthony T. Carter -- From Kanyā to Mātā / R.S. Khare -- Widowhood among "untouchable" chuhras / Pauline Kolenda.

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