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Economic, political and social change in a village of north central India
Human organization : journal of the Society for Applied Anthropology • 11 (2) • Published In 1952 • Pages: 5-12
By: Opler, Morris Edward, Singh, Rudra Datt.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article provides a brief account of economic, political and social changes in an Indian village located in the south-eastern section of the Sate of Uttar Pradesh. Based on ethnographic information collected in 1950, the authors discuss a wide variety of changes that have occurred over the past 40 or so years. The focus includes changes in the size and composition of resident occupational castes, transportation, agricultural tools, farming methods and crops raised, diet and cooking methods, material culture and house types, land ownership and wage conditions.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Tillage
- Labor supply and employment
- Castes
- Occupational specialization
- Agricultural science
- Vehicles
- Animal transport
- Research and development
- Animal by-products
- Diet
- Food preparation
- Education system
- Family relationships
- Real property
- Gender status
- 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
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Anthropologist
- 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
- Teferi Abate Adem; 2010
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1950
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1907-195
- 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
- Morris E. Opler and Rudra Datt Singh
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 47033317
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Uttar Pradesh (India)