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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Social Sciences - <1990
• MitwirkendeR: ARUTYUNYAN, YU. V.,; AZIZ, Β. N.,; BAILEY, RALEIGH E.,; BUCHDAHL, DAVID,; DJAMGHERCHINOV, B. D.,; DRAKE, CARLOS C.,; HOSTETLER, JOHN A.,; KUDRYAVTSEV, Μ. K.,; LIEBMAN, SEYMOUR B.,; MAHAPATRA, L. K.,; MISRA, BHABAGRAHI,; MORGAN, JOHN H.,; NUSBAUM, GEOFFREY,; PRESTON, JAMES J.,; SAVISHINSKY, JOEL,; SCIOG, Ε. M.,; SELIER, FRITS J. M.,; WIMBERLEY, HOWARD,; ZENNER, WALTER P.,
• HerausgeberIn: Misra, Bhabagrahi,; Preston, James,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011]; ©1978
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: Reprint 2011
• Language: English
• Series: World Anthropology : An Interdisciplinary Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (315 p.)

Table of Contents

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