Book
Family and kinship: a study of the Pandits of rural Kashmir
Oxford University Press • Delhi • Published In 1989 • Pages:
By: Madan, T. N..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This comprehensive ethnography of the Kashmiri Pandit family and kinship system discusses the clustered patrilineage settlement patterns within and between rural villages. The author is careful to emphasize religious and occupational identities over nominal caste affiliations.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Real property
- Inheritance
- Marriage
- Family
- Kinship
- Lineages
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Kashmiri
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2023
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Asia
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- South Asia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Ian Skoggard; 2022
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1957-1958
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1957-1958
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Uttersoo-Brariangan (Utrassu-Umanagri), Anantnag, Jammu and Kashmir, India
- NotesAdditional notes
- T.N. Madan ; with a foreword by J.A. Barnes
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 307-315) and index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 90900139
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Kashmiri Pandits
- Jammu and Kashmir (India)--Social life and customs