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Papers in General and Indian Anthropology

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An edition of Perilous transactions (2001)

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Papers in General and Indian Anthropology

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A collection of papers on general and Indian anthropolgy,the volume brings together a number of papers and lectures on various topics in Anthropology, many of them with special reference to India. Part-I concentrates on general topics starting with a personal view of anthropology, continuing with chapters on Functionalism, Structuralism and Symbolic Anthropology and concluding with a chapter on the connection between joking relationships and kinship; and a review of the topic of ethnicity. Part-II focusses on kinship in India and concludes with a comparative study of identity in selected Indian tribes. Part-III has chapters on evolution, structuralism, a critique of a work on sociobiology and a review of kingly theories of caste in India.

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Sikshasandhan
Language
English
Pages
327

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First Sentence

"Anthropology is usually thought of today as the study of what it has come to be called the 'Other'- other peoples, other societies, other cultures..."

Table of Contents

ONE. LECTURES IN GENERAL ANTHROPOLOGY
1. Introduction: The Anthropological Project Page 1
2. Formal Approaches in Anthropology: Durkheim, Mallinowski, Radcliffe-Brown and Levi-Strauss Page 16
3. After Structuralism: Semantic Anthropology and Postmodernism Page 35
4. Symbolism in Anthropology Page 58
5. The Joking Relationship and Kinship: Charting a Theoretical Dependency Page 80
6. Ethnicity: Anthropological Approaches Page 95
TWO. KINSHIP AND IDENTITY IN INDIA
7. Kinship in India: North and South Page 125
8. Tribal Kinship in India and its Theoretical Significance Page 150
9. South Asian Kinship Systems: A Historical Approach to Comparison Page 164
10. Symbolic Marriages and Reincarnation in India Page 185
11. Caste, Kinship and Identity in India Page 199
12. The Concept of Ethnicity as applied to selected 'Tribal' Communities in Orissa Page 216
THREE. ESSAYS ON STRUCTURALISM AND SCIENCE
13. Durkheimian Evolution in the work of Marcel Mauss Page 237
14. Oscillation as Structural Principle in Anthropological Analysis Page 248
15. Dumont's lectures on Kinship: A Preface Page 266
16. Altruism, Kinship and Sociobiology Page 271
17. Perilous Transactions: Kingly Theories of Caste and their Resolution Page 291
Bibliography Page 306
Index Page 329

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [306]-327).650
"Professor N.K. Behura felicitation volume."

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Bhubaneswar, Orissa, India ((www.sikshasandhan.org)

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
301/.0954
Library of Congress
GN25 .P294 2001, GN17.3.I4 P37 2001

The Physical Object

Pagination
327 p. ;
Number of pages
327

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OL3590182M
ISBN 10
8187982004
LCCN
2002292608
OCLC/WorldCat
50715057
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5072257

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