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Structure and change in Indian society / Edited by Milton Singer and Bernard S. Cohn.
- Title
- Structure and change in Indian society / Edited by Milton Singer and Bernard S. Cohn.
- Publication
- Chicago : Aldine Pub. Co., [1968]
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- Description
- xvi, 507 pages : illustrations, maps (part color); 26 cm.
- Series Statement
- Viking Fund publications in anthropology ; no. 47
- Uniform Title
- Viking Fund publications in anthropology ; no. 47.
- Subject
- Note
- "Papers ... were presented ... to a conference on social structure and social change in India held at the University of Chicago, June 3-5, 1965."
- Co-sponsored by the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research and the Committee on Southern Asian Studies of the University of Chicago.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographies.
- Contents
- [Caste and social structure] -- Notes on the history of the study on Indian society and culture / Bernard S. Cohn -- Family, jati, village / David G. Mandelbaum -- A comparative analysis of caste : the United States and India / Edward B. Harper -- [The structure of intercaste relations] -- Caste regions of the North Indian Plain / Joseph E. Schwartzberg -- Toward a grammar of defilement in Hindu sacred law / Henry Orenstein -- Caste ranking and food transactions : a matrix analysis / McKim Marriott -- Caste and world view : the application of survey research methods / Joseph W. Elder -- [Is the Caste system changing?] -- Mobility in the caste system / M.N. Srinivas -- Mobility in the nineteenth-century caste system / William L. Rowe -- The politics of untouchability - A case from Agra,India / Owen M. Lynch -- [Caste in politics, economics, and law] -- Structures of politics in the villages of Southern Asia / Ralph W. Nicholas -- Cast and merchant communities / Leighton W. Hazlehurst -- Changing legal conceptions of caste / Marc Galanter -- [The joint family, its structures and changes] -- Region, Caste, and family structure : a comparative study of the Indian "joint" family / Pauline M. Kolenda -- Chitpavan Brahman family histories : sources for a study of social structure and social change in Maharashtra / Maureen L. P. Patterson -- Time-dimension and structural change in an Indian kinship system : a problem of conceptual refinement / Harold A. Gould -- The Indian joint family in modern industry / Milton Singer -- [Language and social structure] -- Social dialect and semantic structure in south Asia / William Bright -- The structure of variation : a study in caste dialects / A. K. Ramamujan -- Occupation and residence in relation to Dharwar dialects / William McCormack.
- LCCN
- 67017609
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries