The New Wind : : Changing Identities in South Asia / / ed. by Kenneth David.

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Archive (pre 2000) eBook Package
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011]
©1977
Year of Publication:2011
Edition:Reprint 2011
Language:English
Series:World Anthropology : An Interdisciplinary Series
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Physical Description:1 online resource (537 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • I-XVI
  • Introduction
  • PART ONE: The Standing and the Moving
  • The Rise of Social Anthropology in India (1774-1972): A Historical Appraisal
  • Indian Civilization: New Images of the Past for a Developing Nation
  • Deified Men and Humanized Gods: Some Folk Bases of Hindu Theology
  • Prestations and Prayers: Two Homologous Systems in Northern India
  • Power in Hindu Ideology and Practice
  • Gods, Kings, and the Caste System in India
  • Hierarchy and Equivalence in Jaffna, North Sri Lanka: Normative Codes as Mediator
  • Toward an Ethnosociology of South Asian Caste Systems
  • Method and Theory in the Sociology of Louis Dumont: A Reply
  • Flexibility in Central Indian Kinship and Residence
  • PART TWO: The Moving and the Standing
  • Role Analysis and Social Change: With Special Reference to India
  • Agricultural Labor Unions: Some Socioeconomic and Political Considerations
  • Caste Elements Among the Muslims of Bihar
  • Ecological Adaptation to Technology — Ritual Conflict and Leadership Change: The Santal Experience
  • The Santalization of the Santals
  • Region, Religion, and Language: Parameters of Identity in the Process of Acculturation
  • Identity Choice and Caste Ideology in Contemporary South India
  • PART THREE: Discussions
  • Symposium: Changing Identities in South Asia
  • Epilogue: What Shall We Mean by Changing Identities?
  • Biographical Notes
  • Index of Names
  • Index of Subjects