essay
Viewing hierarchy from the bottom up
Encounter and experience; personal accounts of fieldwork • Honolulu • Published In 1975 • Pages: 114-130
By: Mencher, Joan P..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
As a complement to 40: Béteille in this file, this document also presents a study in field methodology, but here the author chooses to study the village social hierarchy from bottom up - i.e., from the lower caste Harijan attitudes rather than the higher caste Brahman. Mencher associated freely with the Harijans during the period of her fieldwork. Their mutual interrelationship described in detail in the text, as well as the Harijan attitude towards various social institutions (e.g., caste pollution), make this a useful work for a study of field methods and for presenting an emic view of social structure.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Theoretical orientation in research and its results
- Observation in research
- Practical preparations in conducting fieldwork
- Ethnosociology
- Castes
- Water supply
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Tamil
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2009
- 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
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Government Official
- 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.
- 3: Good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 1983
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1963-1970
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1963-1970
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Manjapalayam village, Chingleput District, Tamil Nadu, India
- NotesAdditional notes
- Joan P. Mencher
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 129-130)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 75902105
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Tamil (Indic people)