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This is a new, fiftieth anniversary edition of a pioneering and ethnographically rich account of the Hindu family. First published in 1965, the book describes a typical Kashmiri homeland and examines the composition of, and modes of recruitment to, the household.
List 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
About the author
T.N. Madan is Honorary Professor at the Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland and Docteur Honoris Causa of the University of Paris (Nanterre).
Summary
This is a new, fiftieth anniversary edition of a pioneering and ethnographically rich account of the Hindu family. First published in 1965, the book describes a typical Kashmiri homeland and examines the composition of, and modes of recruitment to, the household.
