Book
Behind mud walls
R. R. Smith • New York • Published In 1930 • Pages:
By: Wiser, Charlotte Viall, Wiser, William Henricks.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The authors, Presbyterian missionaries, give a good account of their experiences while attempting to achieve rapport with the villagers of Karimpur in the United Provinces. Though they present the findings of their survey in another volume, this is an intimate personal description of their acceptance into the life of the village. They describe, through individual incidents, the attitudes of the villagers towards outcastes, village leaders, agents of authority, children and education. The last chapter is a compilation in narrative form of the attitudes of the villagers towards change or innovation in the social order.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Settlement patterns
- Castes
- Missions
- Dwellings
- Water supply
- Etiquette
- Community councils
- Nuptials
- Musical instruments
- Community heads
- Social control
- Ingroup antagonisms
- Social relationships and groups
- Purification and atonement
- Avoidance and taboo
- Missions
- Ethnosociology
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Uttar Pradesh
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2010
- 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
- Helen Takacs; 1956
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- ca. 1925-1930
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1920-1930
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- State of Uttar Pradesh, India
- NotesAdditional notes
- By Charlotte Viall Wiser and William H. Wiser
- A study of India village life
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 30033676
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Uttar Pradesh (India)
- Country life--India
- Missions--India
- India--Social life and customs