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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 ... [and others].
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Harvard studies in cultural anthropology ; 5.
- Harvard studies in cultural anthropology ; 5
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Kinship--India--Congresses.
- Kinship.
- India.
- Marriage customs and rites--India--Congresses.
- Marriage customs and rites.
- Caste--India--Congresses.
- Caste.
- India--Social life and customs--Congresses.
- Manners and customs.
- Genre:
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 271 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1982.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Based on papers discussed at a conference held at Harvard University, Dec. 10-13, 1976.
- Includes index.
- Bibliography: pages [249]-264.
- ISBN:
- 0674157656
- OCLC:
- 8243127
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