Dimensions of Social Life : : Essays in Honor of David G. Mandelbaum / / ed. by Paul Hockings.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Social Sciences - <1990
• MitwirkendeR: Anderson, Robert T.,; Beals, Alan R.,; Berreman, Gerald D.,; Bharati, Agehananda,; Bird-David, Nurit,; Dumont, Louis,; Eisenstadt, S.N.,; Emeneau, Murray B.,; Hanks, Jane Richardson,; Hanks, Luden M.,; Hart, George L.,; Hockings, Paul,; Hsu, Francis L.K.,; Huilgol, Glynn,; Izmirlian, Harry,; Kolenda, Pauline,; Nag, Moni,; Nash, Manning,; Nelson, Harry,; Noble, William A.,; Ogbu, John U.,; Pfaffenberger, Bryan,; Rao, M.S.A.,; Rosen, George,; Rosin, R. Thomas,; Scheper-Hughes, Nancy,; Shah, A.M.,; Singer, Milton B.,; Siskin, Edgar E.,; Srinivas, M.N.,; Vatuk, Sylvia J.,; Walker, Anthony R.,; Zigmond, Maurice L.,
• HerausgeberIn: Hockings, Paul,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011]; ©1987
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: Reprint 2011
• Language: English
• Series: New Babylon : Studies in the Social Sciences , 48
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (710 p.) :; 1 Frontispiece
• Other title: I-VI --; Foreword --; List of Tables --; List of Diagrams --; David Mandelbaum and the Rise of South Asian Studies: A Reminiscence --; David G. Mandelbaum: Fifty Years of Scholarship, 1936-1986 --; I Family, Kinship and Personhood --; Authority, Power and Autonomy in the Life Cycle of the North Indian Woman --; Living the Levirate: the Mating of an Untouchable Chuhra Widow --; Life History: Nonconformity and the Syntax of Metaexperience --; The Psychodynamics of Nayar Family Life: the Matrilineal Puzzle Re-examined --; The Armenian Godfather Complex --; Of Siblings and Cousins: Some Notes on Toda Kinship in the Light of Recent Writings --; II Old Tribes and New --; Single Persons and Social Cohesion in a Hunter-Gatherer Society --; Death Comes to an American Indian Tribe --; The Lahushi Bakio: Birth of a New THbe --; IIΙ Culture Areas and Cultural themes --; Transcendental and Folk Aspects of Judaism --; Houses with Centered Courtyards in Kerala and Elsewhere in India --; The Right Hand is the 'Eating Hand': an Indian Areal Linguistic Inqui ry --; Yankee City in Renaissance --; IV Investigating Health and Development --; The Impact of Social and Economic Development on Mortality: a Comparative Study of Kerala and West Bengal --; The Chipko Movement in the Indian Himalayas --; Urbanization and Social Change Concepts and Techniques --; Investigating Back Pain: the Implications of Two Village Studies in South Asia --; Western Economists in South Asia: Some Afterthoughts on an Experience --; Quarry and Field: Sources of Continuity and Change in a Rajasthani Village --; "Mental" in "Southie": Individual, Family and Community Responses to Psychosis in South Boston --; V Caste in India --; Early Evidence for Caste in South India --; Untouchability, the Untouchables and Social Change in Gujarat --; The Denial of Caste in Modern Urban Parlance --; The Caste System and its Future --; VI Stratification and Ethnicity --; Ethnic Group Distribution and Political Influence in South India --; Ethnicity in Peninsular Malaysia: the Idiom of Communalism, Confrontation and Cooperation --; Social Stratification in the United States --; Class, Caste and Caste-ism --; VII The Integration of Civilizations --; Pluralism, Pilgrimage and National Unity in Sri Lanka --; Tourism and English National Identity: Corkaguiney and the Nilgiris --; Germany and Hitler's Anti-Semitism --; Caste and the Construction of Other-Worldly Civilizations --; Biographical Notes --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110846850; 9783110637922
• ISSN: 0077-801X
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110846850
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Paul Hockings.