Book
The Maria Gonds of Bastar
Oxford University Press • London • Published In 1949 • Pages:
By: Grigson, W. V. (Wilfred Vernon), Elwin, Verrier.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This excellent ethnography, by a former member of the Indian Civil Service, describes the culture of two subgroups of the widespread Gond peoples, the relatively unacculturated Hill Marias and the more acculturated Bison Horn Marias, both of Bastar State. The book is divided into five main sections: Introductory, giving the geographical, ethnographical and historical setting of the Maria Gonds; Personal Appearance and Characteristics; Domestic Life and Economy, which includes villages, houses and their contents, agriculture, procuring of food and drink, and domestic life; Religion and Magic, which includes the gods, annual religious ceremonies, and the cult of the departed; and Social Organization and custom, which includes marriage, birth and childhood and death and funeral ceremonies. A number of appendices are included on administrative divisions, clan lists, terms of relationship, names, anthropometry, language, and glossary. Throughout the book, the culture of the Hill Marias is described first, then that of the Bison Horn Marias, with indications as to how the two cultures differ. The Supplement contains a comment by Elwin which includes additional information, mainly on Hill Maria culture; notes on the Maria Gonds of Chanda and Drug District by Grigson; and notes by Elwin on the original edition supplementing or correcting Grigsons material.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Geography
- Descriptive somatology
- Personality traits
- Settlement patterns
- Hunting and trapping
- Collecting
- Tillage
- Organized ceremonial
- General character of religion
- Spirits and gods
- Burial practices and funerals
- Clans
- Sorcery
- Adolescent activities
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Gond
- 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.
- 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.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Timothy J. O'Leary; 1958: John Beierle; 2010
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1927-1934, 1940-1941
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1927-1941
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Maria Gonds, Bastar State, India
- NotesAdditional notes
- by W. V. Grigson ; with an introduction by J. H. Hutton
- Reissued in 1949 with a supplement containing 80 pages of additional matter and 39 illustrations by the author and Verrier Elwin
- Data on the gotul, the adolescents and bachelors dormitory, will be found in category 883. Data on the zamindar, sendhia, and taluq, all administrative divisions, have been filed in category 632.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 337-338)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 39003071
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Gond (Indic people)
- Ethnology--India--Bastar
- Bastar (India)