Family and Kinship: A Study of the Pandits of Rural KashmirFirst published in 1965 by the Asia Publishing House and recognized in anthropological and sociological circles as a pioneering and ethnographically rich account of the Hindu family, this is the second edition published by the OUP. This enlarged edition has three new appendices, a revised listof references and a new index, though the text remains unchanged. The book describes a typical Kashmiri homeland and examines the composition of and modes of recruitment to the household. |
Contents
HISTORY AND SOCIAL ORGANIZATION | 13 |
UTRASSUUMANAGRI | 25 |
THE HOMESTEAD AND THE HOUSEHOLD | 39 |
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Family and Kinship: A Study of the Pandits of Rural Kashmir 2/e T.N. Madan No preview available - 2002 |
Common terms and phrases
able adoption adult affines agnates already become birth bonds Brahmans brothers called ceremony child chulah close clothes common Compound concerned conjugal consequence considerable consists course cousins daughter death domestic economic expected fact father gifts girl give given Hindu hold household husband important income India individual inheritance initiation interest joint jural Kashmir kind kinship kotamb land latter living male marriage married matamal means moral mother Muslims natal nature obligations observed occasions offer one's Pandits parents particularly partition patrilineal performed person position present rare receive reference regarded relations relationship relatives residence rites ritual roles share siblings sister situation social society sons status structural tion Umanagri usually Utrassu-Umanagri various village widow wife wife-givers wife-takers wife's wives woman women
