Perilous transactions
Papers in General and Indian Anthropology
by Robert Parkin
A collection of papers on general and Indian anthropolgy,the volume brings together a number of papers and lectures on various topics in Anthropology, many of them with special reference to India. Part-I concentrates on general topics starting with a personal view of anthropology, continuing with chapters on Functionalism, Structuralism and Symbolic Anthropology and concluding with a chapter on the connection between joking relationships and kinship; and a review of the topic of ethnicity. Part-II focusses on kinship in India and concludes with a comparative study of identity in selected Indian tribes. Part-III has chapters on evolution, structuralism, a critique of a work on sociobiology and a review of kingly theories of caste in India.
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Perilous transactions: Papers in General and Indian Anthropology
2001, Sikshasandhan
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"Anthropology is usually thought of today as the study of what it has come to be called the 'Other'- other peoples, other societies, other cultures..."
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [306]-327).650
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