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Table of contents
- 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
- SECTION ONE: 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
- SECTION TWO: 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 Tribe
- SECTION THREE: 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 Inquiry
- Yankee City in Renaissance
- SECTION FOUR: 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
- SECTION FIVE: 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
- SECTION SIX: STRATIFICATION AND ETHNICITY
- Ethnic Group Distribution and Political Influence in South India
- Ethnicity in Peninsular Malaysia: the Idiom of Communalism, Confrontation and Co-operation
- Social Stratification in the United States
- Class, Caste and Caste-ism
- SECTION SEVEN: 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