The Remembered Village / M. N. Srinivas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Srinivas, Mysore Narasimhachar, author.

Series:

Center for South and Southeast Asia Studies, UC Berkeley Series

Center for South and Southeast Asia Studies, UC Berkeley Series ; Volume 26

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Villages--India.

Villages.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (392 p.) : [4] leaves of plates

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, California : University of California Press, 1980.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

"The real virtue of this most recent contribution by Dr. Srinivas is the consistently human, humane, and humanistic tone oft he observations and of the narration; the simple, straightforward style in which it is written; and the richness of anecdotal materials. . . . He writes modestly as a wise and knowledgeable man. He restores faith in the best tradition of ethnography. Without being popular, in the pejorative sense, it is a book any uninitiated reader can read with pleasure and enlightenment."--Cora Du Bois, Asian Student "Few accounts of village life give one the sense of coming to know, of vicariously sharing in, the lives of real villagers that this book conveys. . . . The work is holistic in the best anthropological manner; the principal aspects of Rampura life are lucidly sketched and the interrelations among them are cogently considered. . . . our collective knowledge and its practical relevance become enhanced."--David G. Mandelbaum, Economic and Political Weekly "[Srinivas] has described and analyzed life in Rampura in the late 1940s with charm and insight. His book is enjoyable as well as illuminating. . . . In addition to the rich detail of village life and of a number of individual villagers, Srinivas gives us valuable insights into the nature of ethnographic research. He relates how he came to study this particular village. He tells us how he got established in the village, and describes vividly his living quarters. . . . He describes, at various places throughout the book, his reactions to the villagers and his perceptions of their reactions to him. He freely admits his own negative reactions to certain things and certain behavior. He discusses the factors that could and did bias his research. . . . illuminate[s] both the problems and the rewards of the ethnographer. . . . must reading."--Robert H. Lauer, Sociology: Reviews of

New Books.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Foreword

Preface

Contents

Illustrations

Maps and Diagrams

CHAPTER I. How It All Began

CHAPTER II. The Field Situation

CHAPTER III. Three Important Men

CHAPTER IV. The Universe of Agriculture

CHAPTER V. The Sexes and the Household

CHAPTER VI. Relations Between Castes

CHAPTER VII. Classes and Factions

CHAPTER VIII. The Changing Village

CHAPTER IX. The Quality of Social Relations

CHAPTER X. Religion

CHAPTER XI. Farewell

Appendix I. The Hindu Calendar, Rain, and Agriculture

Appendix II

Appendix III. List of Important Festivals in 1948

Glossary

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Nov 2020)

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780520341630

0520341635

OCLC:

1224278384