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Title Concepts of person : kinship, caste, and marriage in India / edited by Akos Ostor, Lina Fruzzetti, and Steve Barnett ; contributors, Akos Ostor ... [and others]
Published Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1982

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Description xiv, 271 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Series Harvard studies in cultural anthropology ; 5
Harvard studies in cultural anthropology ; 5
Contents The cultural construction of the person in Bengal and Tamilnadu / Lina Fruzzetti, Akos Ostor, and Steve Barnett -- Bad blood in Bengal / Lina Fruzzetti and Akos Ostor -- Forms of address in the north Indian family / Sylvia Vatuk -- The ideology of the householder among the Kashmiri pandits / T.N. Madan --Hierarchy and the concept of the person in western India / Anthony T. Carter -- From Kanya to Mata /R.S. Khare -- Widowhood among "untouchable" chuhras /Pauline Kolenda
Analysis India (Republic) Cultural processes
Notes Based on papers discussed at a conference held at Harvard University, Dec. 10-13, 1976
Includes index
Bibliography Bibliography: pages [249]-264
Subject Caste -- India -- Congresses.
Kinship -- India -- Congresses.
Marriage customs and rites -- India -- Congresses.
Caste -- India -- Congresses.
Identity (Psychology) -- India -- Congresses.
Kinship -- India -- Congresses.
Marriage customs and rites -- India -- Congresses.
Persons -- Congresses.
SUBJECT India -- Social life and customs http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh86007592 -- Congresses. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001533
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings.
Author Barnett, Steve, 1941-
Fruzzetti, Lina.
Östör, Ákos.
LC no. 82002891
ISBN 0674157656