The Ho: Living in a World of Plenty : : Of Social Cohesion and Ritual Friendship on the Chota Nagpur Plateau, India / / Eva Reichel.
The book is set in the anthropologically much-neglected multi-ethnic interior of Highland Middle India. It is the result of fieldwork done over a period of more than a decade among the Ho, an indigenous community of approximately one million people, who have shared cultural norms and the space of th...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2020 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2020] ©2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Religion and Society ,
84 |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (XVIII, 394 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Abstract
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Annotations
- Prologue
- 1 Introduction: Living in a world of plenty
- 2 The Chota Nagpur Plateau: terrain and people
- 3 Living in a world of relations: of Ho social categories
- 4 Ho accounts of social cohesion in history, myth, and the present
- 5 Relatedness across tribal boundaries: the Ho and their clients
- 6 The saki relation as ritual friendship
- 7 Two portraits as conclusion
- Appendices
- Glossary I: Notes on Ho history
- Glossary II: Ho terms
- Lists of Plates, Figures, and Maps
- References
- Index