Kinship in Bengali culture
Kinship in Bengali culture

Author: Ronald B. Inden

Publisher: Orient Blackswan

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 174

ISBN-13: 9788180280184

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The Book Analyzes The Kinship System Of A Major Human Society That Possesses An Ancient, Literate Civilization And A Tradition Of Analytical Thought.

Caste, Kinship, and Community
Caste, Kinship, and Community

Author: Satadal Dasgupta

Publisher: Orient Blackswan

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 9780863112799

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With reference to the Dule Bagdis, cultivating and fishing caste in West Bengal.

New Directions in Anthropological Kinship
New Directions in Anthropological Kinship

Author: Linda Stone, professor emeritus, Washington State University

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Published: 2002-05-30

Total Pages: 369

ISBN-13: 058538424X

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Following periods of intense debate and eventual demise, kinship studies is now seeing a revival in anthropology. New Directions in Anthropological Kinship captures these recent trends and explores new avenues of inquiry in this re-emerging subfield. The book comprises contributions from primatology, evolutionary anthropology, archaeology, and cultural anthropology. The authors review the history of kinship in anthropology and its theory, and recent research in relation to new directions of anthropological study. Moving beyond the contentious debates of the past, the book covers feminist anthropology on kinship, the expansion of kinship into the areas of new reproductive technologies, recent kinship constructions in EuroAmerican societies, and the role of kinship in state politics.

Caste Ideology and Interaction
Caste Ideology and Interaction

Author: Dennis B. McGilvray

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1982-09-02

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 9780521241458

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Following the publication of the book by E. R. Leach, ed., Aspects of Caste in South India, Ceylon and North-West Pakistan (1960), much additional information was gathered on caste hierarchies in South Asia, and two major attempts were made to identify the underlying unity of this material - a structuralist one by Louis Dumont and a ethnosocialogical one by McKim Marriott et al. This quest for unity seemed attractive, yet at the same time, as the contributions to the present volume indicate, premature. The four papers collected here and published in 1982 are all concerned with caste ideology and caste interaction in different locales of South Asia.