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Family and kinship : a study of the pandit of rural Kashmir / T N Madan

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Publication details: New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 1989.Edition: 2nd edDescription: xxvi, 325 p. 22 cmISBN:
  • 0195621387
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.8 MAD
Contents:
Table of Contents Contents Foreword Preface to the Fiftieth Anniversary Edition Preface to the Second Paperback Edition Preface to the Paperback Edition Preface to the Second Edition Preface to the First Edition Acknowledgements 1. Introduction: Problems and Methods 2. Kashmiri Pandits: History and Social Organization 3. Utrassu-Umanagri 4. The Homestead and the Household 5. Recruitment to the Household: (1) Birth and Adoption 6. Recruitment to the Household: (2) Marriage and Incorporation 7. The Economic Aspect of the Household 8. Partition of the Household 9. The Family and the Patriliniage 10. The Wider Kinship Structure: Non-agnatic Kin 11. Household and the Family among the Pandits of Rural Kashmir: Concluding Review Appendix I Structural Implications of Marriage: Wife-givers and Wife-takers Appendix II The Ideology of the Householder Appendix III The Language of Kinship: (1) Kinship and Terminology Appendix IV The Language of Kinship: (2) Proverb Appendix V The Convoy: A Note on Five Informants Appendix VI On Living Intimately with Strangers Glossary References Index
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Table of Contents
Contents
Foreword
Preface to the Fiftieth Anniversary Edition
Preface to the Second Paperback Edition
Preface to the Paperback Edition
Preface to the Second Edition
Preface to the First Edition
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction: Problems and Methods
2. Kashmiri Pandits: History and Social Organization
3. Utrassu-Umanagri
4. The Homestead and the Household
5. Recruitment to the Household: (1) Birth and Adoption
6. Recruitment to the Household: (2) Marriage and Incorporation
7. The Economic Aspect of the Household
8. Partition of the Household
9. The Family and the Patriliniage
10. The Wider Kinship Structure: Non-agnatic Kin
11. Household and the Family among the Pandits of Rural Kashmir: Concluding Review
Appendix I Structural Implications of Marriage: Wife-givers and Wife-takers
Appendix II The Ideology of the Householder
Appendix III The Language of Kinship: (1) Kinship and Terminology
Appendix IV The Language of Kinship: (2) Proverb
Appendix V The Convoy: A Note on Five Informants
Appendix VI On Living Intimately with Strangers
Glossary
References
Index