Dimensions of Social Life

Frontmatter -- Foreword -- List of Tables -- List of Diagrams -- David Mandelbaum and the Rise of South Asian Studies: A Reminiscence / Singer, Milton B. -- 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 / Vatuk, Sylvia J. -- Living the Levirate: the Mating of an Untouchable Chuhra Widow / Kolenda, Pauline -- Life History: Nonconformity and the Syntax of Metaexperience / Izmirlian, Harry -- The Psychodynamics of Nayar Family Life: the Matrilineal Puzzle Re-examined / Huilgol, Glynn -- The Armenian Godfather Complex / Nelson, Harry -- Of Siblings and Cousins: Some Notes on Toda Kinship in the Light of Recent Writings / Walker, Anthony R. -- II Old Tribes and New -- Single Persons and Social Cohesion in a Hunter-Gatherer Society / Bird-David, Nurit -- Death Comes to an American Indian Tribe / Zigmond, Maurice L. -- The Lahushi Bakio: Birth of a New THbe / Hanks, Luden M. / Hanks, Jane Richardson -- II¿ Culture Areas and Cultural themes -- Transcendental and Folk Aspects of Judaism / Siskin, Edgar E. -- Houses with Centered Courtyards in Kerala and Elsewhere in India / Noble, William A. -- The Right Hand is the 'Eating Hand': an Indian Areal Linguistic Inqui ry / Emeneau, Murray B. -- Yankee City in Renaissance / Singer, Milton B. -- IV Investigating Health and Development -- The Impact of Social and Economic Development on Mortality: a Comparative Study of Kerala and West Bengal / Nag, Moni -- The Chipko Movement in the Indian Himalayas / Berreman, Gerald D. -- Urbanization and Social Change Concepts and Techniques / Rao, M.S.A. -- Investigating Back Pain: the Implications of Two Village Studies in South Asia / Anderson, Robert T. -- Western Economists in South Asia: Some Afterthoughts on an Experience / Rosen, George -- Quarry and Field: Sources of Continuity and Change in a Rajasthani Village / Rosin, R. Thomas -- "Mental" in "Southie": Individual, Family and Community Responses to Psychosis in South Boston / Scheper-Hughes, Nancy -- V Caste in India -- Early Evidence for Caste in South India / Hart, George L. -- Untouchability, the Untouchables and Social Change in Gujarat / Shah, A.M. -- The Denial of Caste in Modern Urban Parlance / Bharati, Agehananda -- The Caste System and its Future / Srinivas, M.N. -- VI Stratification and Ethnicity -- Ethnic Group Distribution and Political Influence in South India / Beals, Alan R. -- Ethnicity in Peninsular Malaysia: the Idiom of Communalism, Confrontation and Cooperation / Nash, Manning -- Social Stratification in the United States / Ogbu, John U. -- Class, Caste and Caste-ism / Hsu, Francis L.K. -- VII The Integration of Civilizations -- Pluralism, Pilgrimage and National Unity in Sri Lanka / Pfaffenberger, Bryan -- Tourism and English National Identity: Corkaguiney and the Nilgiris / Hockings, Paul -- Germany and Hitler's Anti-Semitism / Dumont, Louis -- Caste and the Construction of Other-Worldly Civilizations / Eisenstadt, S.N. -- Biographical Notes -- Index