India : an anthropological perspective /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Pacific Palisades, California :
Goodyear Publishing Co.,
[1973]
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| Series: | Goodyear regional anthropology series.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction. India in perspective. Personal character ; Geographic background ; Races of India ; Language.
- Formation of Indian culture. Prehistorical cultures. The Stone Age ; Peasant villages and proto-cities ; The Indus civilization ; The rebirth of cities ; Neolithic cultures
- The orthodox pattern. The Vedic paradigm ; The ritual paradigm of the Brahmanas ; The monistic reduction of the Upanisads
- The heterodox challenge. Jainism ; Buddhism ; Carvaka
- The Hindu synthesis. The six systems of philosophy ; The social order ; Hinduism.
- Contemporary social organization. Tribes and peasants. Tribes ; Peasants
- Family and kinship. The joint family ; Extended kin groups ; Affinals and consanguineals ; Secondary patterns ; Divorce ; Change
- The caste system. Purity and pollution ; The logic of hierarchy ; Varna and jati ; The "interactional" theory ; The a-priori ground of hierarchy ; The exploitative argument ; Power and hierarchy ; The jajmani system ; Commensality and connubiality ; Asymmetry and change.