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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.].

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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.].
Publication
Delhi ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1992.

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Additional Authors
  • Barnett, Steve, 1941-
  • Fruzzetti, Lina
  • Östör, Ákos.
Description
xxviii, 276 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., geneal. tables; 22 cm.
Subject
  • Caste > India > Congresses
  • India > Social life and customs > Congresses
  • Kinship > India > Congresses
  • Marriage customs and rites > India > Congresses
Note
  • Based on papers discussed at a conference held at Harvard University, Dec. 10-13, 1976.
  • Reprint. Originally published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1982. With a new introd.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
The cultural construction of the person in Bengal and Tamilnadu / Lina Fruzzetti, Ákos Östör, and Steve Barnett -- Bad blood in Bengal / Lina Fruzzettia 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 Māta ̄/ R.S. Khare -- Widowhood among "untouchable" Chuhras / Pauline Kolenda.
ISBN
0195630335 (pbk) :
LCCN
gb^93003147^
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library