Book
Ancient Hindu refugees: Badaga social history 1550-1975
Mouton • 6 • Published In 1980 • Pages: 14, 285
By: Hockings, Paul.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This source on Badaga social history between 1550 and 1975 is one of the primary sources in the Badaga file. The topics discussed by the author include clan and phratry legends of the Badaga migration from Mysore to the Nilgiri Plateau, place names and cultural ecology, social organization, the interdependence of Badaga communities with non-Badaga communities on the Nilgiri Plateau, economic history, political organization and law, the impact of culture contact, acculturation, and missionization, and religious and social change in the 20th century.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- History
- Community heads
- Place names
- Settlement patterns
- Clans
- Phratries
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Sociocultural trends
- External relations
- Medium of exchange
- External trade
- Missions
- Ingroup antagonisms
- General character of religion
- Spirits and gods
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Badaga
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2005
- 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.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Gerald Reid ; 1989
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1962-1977
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1550-1975
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Nilgiri Hills, Tamil Nadu State, India
- NotesAdditional notes
- Paul Hockings
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-261) and indexes
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 81150306
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Badaga (Indic people)