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Social organization among the Santal

Editions IndianCalcuttaPublished In 1970 • Pages:

By: Kochar, Vijay.

AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a study of the social organization of the village of Kuapara in Birbhum District, West Bengal, India, where the author did intermittent field work in 1958-1961 (10.5 months). The gathered field data were then combined with comparative information from other published works to produce this document. In this work Kochar provides a basic description ofthe essential elements of Santal social structure (e.g., in reference to tribe, clan, sub-clan, village community, and traditional village officials), and then continues with more detailed information on the interrelationship between clan and sub-clan, lineage organization, the developmental cycle in the family, the articulation of the family with the lineage, and kinship terminology.
SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
Sociocultural trends
Cultural participation
Household
Nuclear family
Extended families
Kinship terminology
Kin relationships
Lineages
Clans
Community heads
Districts
cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
Santal
HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
1998
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
John Beierle ; 1996
Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
1958-1961
Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
1958-1961
Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
Kuapara village, Birbhum District, West Bengal, India
NotesAdditional notes
Vijay Kochar
Includes bibliographical references (p. 121-128)
LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
78920560sa
LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
Santal (South Asian people)