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Tribes of Western India - A Comparative Study of Their Social Structure

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This volume presents an in-depth empirical study of the social structure of five Scheduled Tribes (STs) in Gujarat, Western India, viz., Gamit, Vasava, Chaudhari, Kukana, and Warli. It analyses their internal social organization consisting of institutions of household, family, lineage, clan, kinship rules and marriage networks.

Table des matières

1. Introduction: Social Structure of Tribes in Western India, 2. Profile of Gujarat Tribes, 3. Kinship System, 4. Kinship Behaviour, 5. Marriage Networks and Social Space, 6. Taxonomy of Households - Part I: Simple Households, 7. Taxonomy of Households - Part II: Complex Households, 8. Social Structure and Change in Tribes, Appendix I: Kinship Terms of Five Tribes in South Gujarat, Appendix II: Kin Terms from Children’s Perspective, Appendix III: Kinship Terms from Wife's Perspective, Appendix IV: Kinship Terms from Husband’s Perspective, Appendix V: Some More Kinship Terms for Group of Relatives, Appendix VI: Generation-wise Kinship Terms among Five Tribes of South Gujarat, Appendix VII: Abbreviations for Kin Types.

A propos de l'auteur

Dhananjay Kumar is currently teaching at the Department of Anthropology, Kalahandi University, Odisha, India. Earlier he worked as an Assistant Professor at the Centre for Culture and Development, Vadodara, Gujarat, India. He did his post-graduation in Anthropology from the University of Delhi and has a doctorate in Social Anthropology from the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, Odisha, India.
Lancy Lobo has been Professor and Director at the Centre for Social Studies, Surat, India. He holds a master’s degree in Anthropology and a doctoral degree in Sociology from the Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi, India. He is also the Founder-Director at the Centre for Culture and Development, Vadodara, India. Currently, he is a research scholar at the Indian Social Institute, Delhi, India.

Résumé

This volume presents an in-depth empirical study of the social structure of five Scheduled Tribes (STs) in Gujarat, Western India, viz., Gamit, Vasava, Chaudhari, Kukana, and Warli. It analyses their internal social organization consisting of institutions of household, family, lineage, clan, kinship rules and marriage networks.

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