essay
The division of labor in an Indian village
Reader in General Anthropology • New York • Published In 1954 • Pages: 464-496
By: Opler, Morris Edward, Singh, Rudra Datt.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This paper was originally given as a lecture by Professor Opler in a beginning course in Anthropology. The Indian village described, Senapur, is the home and family seat of Rudra Datt Singh, co-author of this paper. After a brief general description of the village, there is a comprehensive survey of the social and economic structure of the village life. The information centers largely on an account of the various castes—their traditions, economic role, rank, etc.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Community structure
- Tillage
- Settlement patterns
- Conversation
- Property system
- Community councils
- Castes
- Occupational specialization
- Avoidance and taboo
- Purification and atonement
- Priesthood
- Family relationships
- Extended families
- 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
- essay
- 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
- Beverly Calsoyas; 1956
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- none
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1900-1954
- 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 Morris Opler and Rudra Datt Singh
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 51026724
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Uttar Pradesh (India)