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Concepts of person : kinship, caste, and marriage in India

Title: Concepts of person : kinship, caste, and marriage in India / edited by Ákos Östör, Lina Fruzzetti, and Steve Barnett ; contributors, Ákos Östör ... [et al.].
Publication: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1982.

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xiv, 271 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Harvard studies in cultural anthropology ; 5

Subject

Kinship > India > Congresses
Marriage customs and rites > India > Congresses
Caste > India > Congresses
India > Congresses

Note

Based on papers discussed at a conference held at Harvard University, Dec. 10-13, 1976.
Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

Bibliography: p. [249]-264.

Contents

The cultural construction of the person in Bengal and Tamilnadu / Lina Fruzzetti, Ákos Östör, and Steve Barnett -- Bad blood in Bengal / Lina Fruzzetti 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 Mātā / R.S. Khare -- Widowhood among "untouchable" chuhras / Pauline Kolenda.

ISBN

0674157656

LCCN

82002891

OCLC

ocm08243127
SCSB-78437

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Princeton University Library