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

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TextSeries: Harvard studies in cultural anthropology ; 5Publication details: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1982.Description: xiv, 271 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:

0674157656

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306.8 19 OSC 1982

LOC classification:

GN635.I4 C68 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.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Notes	Barcode
Books	Bangladesh Public Administration Training Centre Library General Stacks	306.8 OSC 1982	Available	Raisa	50859

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

Includes index.

Bibliography: p. [249]-264.

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