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Title

Kinship in Bangladesh / K. M. Ashraful Aziz.

Author

Aziz, K. M. Ashraful.

Publication

Dacca : International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, 1979.

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Description

xviii, 228, iv p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Series Statement

Monograph series - International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh ; no. 1

Subject

• Kinship > Bangladesh
• Kinship > Terminology
• Bangladesh > Social life and customs

Genre/Form

Terminology

Note

• A revision of the author's thesis (M.A.), University of Rajshahi, under the title: Kin terminologies and family structures of Muslims and Hindus in Matlab Thānā and neighbourhood, rural Bangladesh.
• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 216-221.

Contents

Background, setting and method -- Village social structure -- Family and familial institutions -- Kin terms and behaviour -- Significance of kinship beyond the village -- Appendix I. Cholera research laboratory : census, 1974, Matlab -- Appendix II. Socioeconomic part of CRL census form 1974, Matlab -- Appendix III. Literacy test -- Appendix IV. Billingsley's typology of family structures -- Appendix V. A comparison of the contents of rural households during 1899 and 1974 -- Appendix VI. Kin terminologies of certain Indo-Aryan language speaking areas -- Appendix VII. Kin terms for son and father in different rural areas of Bangladesh -- Appendix VIII. Individual visits to kin members by month and religion in 1975 at Matlab -- Appendix IX. Cholera research laboratory : marital status registration form -- Appendix X. Exclusively Muslim kin terms in study villages -- Appendix XI. Discriptive kinship terms and their terms of address for seven generations (+3 generation to -3 generation.)

LCCN

^^^79905289^//r85

OCLC

6649256

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Harvard Library