Community, Self and Identity / / ed. by Bhabagrahi Misra, James Preston.

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Social Sciences - <1990
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011]
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Year of Publication:2011
Edition:Reprint 2011
Language:English
Series:World Anthropology : An Interdisciplinary Series
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Physical Description:1 online resource (315 p.)
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Other title:I-IV --
General Editor's Preface --
Introduction --
SECTION ONE Community in South Asian Cultures --
Gods, Kings, and the Caste System in India --
Commercial Economy of an Urban Temple in India: A Shift from Inheritance to Consignment Rights --
The Indian Caste Community as a Social System --
Social Cohesion and Reciprocation in a Tibetan Community in Nepal --
SECTION TWO Cultures of the Soviet Union --
Interaction of Cultures Among Peoples of the USSR --
Development of Traditional Aspects of National Culture in the Soviet Central Asian Republics --
SECTION THREE Community and World Judaism --
The Jews as an Ethnic Group in the Americas During the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries --
Ancestor Memorialism: A Comparison of Jews and Japanese --
Some Functional and Structural Aspects of Family Life in a Communal Society: The Financial Sector of the Kibbutz Family --
Jewish Communities as Cultural Units --
SECTION FOUR Communal Society in America --
Eschatological Living: Religious Experience in the Shaker Community --
Religious Orientation of the Communal Counter-Culture: God, Nature, and Mysticism in Contemporary Society --
Rituals of Community in an American Religious Youth Group Meeting --
The Country Place: An Intentional, Therapeutic Community --
Ethnography of Religious Factors in a Politically Oriented Communal Group of New England --
Aspects of Personality in a Communal Society --
Communitarian Experiments and the Self --
Biographical Notes --
Index of Names --
Index of Subjects
Format:Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
ISBN:9783110802658
9783110637922
DOI:10.1515/9783110802658
Access:restricted access
Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Bhabagrahi Misra, James Preston.