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An edition of Perilous transactions (2001)

Perilous transactions

Papers in General and Indian Anthropology

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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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Sikshasandhan
Language
English
Pages
327

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First Sentence

"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..."

Table of Contents

ONE. LECTURES IN GENERAL ANTHROPOLOGY
1. Introduction: The Anthropological Project
Page 1
2. Formal Approaches in Anthropology: Durkheim, Mallinowski, Radcliffe-Brown and Levi-Strauss
Page 16
3. After Structuralism: Semantic Anthropology and Postmodernism
Page 35
4. Symbolism in Anthropology
Page 58
5. The Joking Relationship and Kinship: Charting a Theoretical Dependency
Page 80
6. Ethnicity: Anthropological Approaches
Page 95
TWO. KINSHIP AND IDENTITY IN INDIA
7. Kinship in India: North and South
Page 125
8. Tribal Kinship in India and its Theoretical Significance
Page 150
9. South Asian Kinship Systems: A Historical Approach to Comparison
Page 164
10. Symbolic Marriages and Reincarnation in India
Page 185
11. Caste, Kinship and Identity in India
Page 199
12. The Concept of Ethnicity as applied to selected 'Tribal' Communities in Orissa
Page 216
THREE. ESSAYS ON STRUCTURALISM AND SCIENCE
13. Durkheimian Evolution in the work of Marcel Mauss
Page 237
14. Oscillation as Structural Principle in Anthropological Analysis
Page 248
15. Dumont's lectures on Kinship: A Preface
Page 266
16. Altruism, Kinship and Sociobiology
Page 271
17. Perilous Transactions: Kingly Theories of Caste and their Resolution
Page 291
Bibliography
Page 306
Index
Page 329

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [306]-327).650
"Professor N.K. Behura felicitation volume."

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Bhubaneswar, Orissa, India ((www.sikshasandhan.org)

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Dewey Decimal Class
301/.0954
Library of Congress
GN25 .P294 2001, GN17.3.I4 P37 2001

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327 p. ;
Number of pages
327

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OL3590182M
ISBN 10
8187982004
LCCN
2002292608
OCLC/WorldCat
50715057
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5072257

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