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Traditional India : structure and change / edited by Milton Singer.

Title
Traditional India : structure and change / edited by Milton Singer.
Publication
Philadelphia : American Folklore Society, 1959.

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Singer, Milton B.
Description
xxviii, 332 p. : ill.; 26 cm.
Series Statement
Publications of the American Folklore Society. Bibliographical and special series ; v. 10
Uniform Title
Publications of the American Folklore Society. Bibliographical and special series v. 10.
Subject
  • Social change
  • India > Civilization
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
1. The social organization of tradition: The Brahman tradition / Daniel Ingalls ; The idea of the martial Rājpūt / John T. Hitchcock ; Traditions of the Indian craftsman / Stella Kramrisch ; The Indian merchant / Helen Lamb ; Class and cultural traditions in India / W. Norman Brown ; The Vahīvancā Bāroṭs of Gujarat : a caste of genealogists and mythographers / A.H. Shah and R.G. Shroff -- 2. Cultural performances and cultural media: The Rām Līlā / Norvin Hein ; The Indian hero as a Vidyādhara / J.A.B. van Buitenen ; Oral poets of South India : the Toads / M.B. Emeneau ; The forms of communication in Vīraśaiva religion / William McCormack ; Methods of popular religious instruction in South India / V. Raghavan -- 3. Some problems and processes of culture change: The great tradition in a metropolitan center : Madras / Milton Singer ; Religion of the Anāvils of Surat / T.B. Naik ; Some aspects of caste in Bengal / Nirmal Kumar Bose ; Changing traditions of a low caste / Bernard S. Cohn ; A tribal people in an inductrial setting / Martin Orans ; Cults of the dead among the Nāyars / E. Kathleen Gough ; A Sikh village / Indera Singh ; Tribal cultures of Pieninsular India as a dimension of the little tradition : a preliminary statement / Surajit Sinha.
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OCLC
  • 409403
  • SCSB-9954870
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