Concepts of person : kinship, caste, and marriage in India / edited by Ákos Östör, Lina Fruzzetti, and Steve Barnett ; contributors, Ákos Östör ... [et al.]. - Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1982. - xiv, 271 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - Harvard studies in cultural anthropology ; 5 .

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

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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.

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