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Title:

Concepts of person : kinship, caste, and marriage in India / edited by Ákos Östör, Lina Fruzzetti, and Steve Barnett ; contributors, Ákos Östör ... [et al.].

Publisher:

Harvard University Press,

Copyright Date:

1982

Description:

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

Subject:

Caste--India--Congresses.
Kinship--India--Congresses.
Marriage customs and rites--India--Congresses.
India--Congresses.--Congresses.

Other Authors:

Barnett, Steve, 1941-
Fruzzetti, Lina.
Östör, Ákos.

Notes:

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

Series:

Harvard studies in cultural anthropology ; 5

ISBN:

9780674157651
0674157656

LCCN:

82002891

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OMAX631 -- Geisler Learning Resource Cntr (Pella)