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Dimensions of Social Life : Essays in Honor of David G. Mandelbaum / ed. by Paul Hockings.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: New Babylon : Studies in the Social Sciences ; 48Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2011]Copyright date: ©1987Edition: Reprint 2011Description: 1 online resource (710 p.) : 1 FrontispieceContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110106381
  • 9783110846850
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306/.0954 19
LOC classification:
  • GN325 .D55 1987eb
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  • online - DeGruyter
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  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
I-VI -- 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 -- IIΙ 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 in South India -- Ethnicity in Peninsular Malaysia: the Idiom of Communalism, Confrontation and Cooperation -- Social Stratification in the United States -- Class, Caste and Caste-ism -- VII The Integration of Civilizations -- Pluralism, Pilgrimage and National Unity in Sri Lanka -- Tourism and English National Identity: Corkaguiney and the Nilgiris -- Germany and Hitler's Anti-Semitism -- Caste and the Construction of Other-Worldly Civilizations -- Biographical Notes -- Index
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I-VI -- 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 -- IIΙ 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 in South India -- Ethnicity in Peninsular Malaysia: the Idiom of Communalism, Confrontation and Cooperation -- Social Stratification in the United States -- Class, Caste and Caste-ism -- VII The Integration of Civilizations -- Pluralism, Pilgrimage and National Unity in Sri Lanka -- Tourism and English National Identity: Corkaguiney and the Nilgiris -- Germany and Hitler's Anti-Semitism -- Caste and the Construction of Other-Worldly Civilizations -- Biographical Notes -- Index

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