Book
Rivalry and tribute: society and ritual in a Telegu village in South India
Hindustan Pub.Corp. • Delhi • Published In 1987 • Pages: xvi, 309
By: Tapper, Bruce Elliot.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This study describes Telugu village society, ritual life, and the interplay between them. More specifically, the author examines how ritual mediates Telugu caste relationships. While scholars have long discussed caste in terms of hierarchy and patron-client relationships, the author instead focuses on the important role of ritual in constituting the moral underpinnings of mutual responsibility and interdependence that serve to conflate morality and hierarchy. The author examines gender and kin-based social relations that also require the ongoing mediation of ritual. The core ritual practiced at funerals, calendrical celebrations, and agricultural festivals is an act of obeisance to a god acknowledged to have power over an individual, but from which the supplicant expects reciprocity.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Exhibitions
- Gender status
- Castes
- Community heads
- Inter-community relations
- Religious offenses
- Cult of the dead
- Spirits and gods
- Ritual
- Organized ceremonial
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Telugu
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2016
- 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.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Ian Skoggard; 2015
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1970-1972
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1970-1972
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Yatapalem (Pedda Yātapālem), Visakhapatnam (Vishākhapatnam) district, Andhra Pradesh, India
- NotesAdditional notes
- Bruce Elliot Tapper
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 268-271), glossary, and index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 87904104
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Hinduism--India--Vishākhapatnam (District)--Customs and practices
- Vishākhapatnam (India : District)--Social conditions