Book
Kindreds of the earth: Badaga household structure and demography
AltaMira Press • Walnut Creek, Calif. • Published In 1999 • Pages:
By: Hockings, Paul.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Hockings has written a demographic account of four Badaga villages based on archival research and thirty years (1962-1993) of fieldwork. The Badaga witnessed a meteoric climb in their population from 2,207 in 1812 to 150,000 in 1995. Hockings attributes this surge to their successful adoptation to modernity, switching from subsistence farming (potatoes) to growing of cash crops (tea) and supplementing household income with wage and salary work. The availability and high cost of education has resulted in a reduction of fertility and family size, and a shift from joint- to nuclear-family households. Smaller household size is also a result of land scarcity and smaller landholdings, which require less labor to work. Hockings examines changes in cultivation practices, mortality, morbidity, age structure, marriage patterns, age of marriage, birth rates, education, and language use.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Demography
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Regulation of marriage
- Household
- Kinship terminology
- Community structure
- Inter-community relations
- Burial practices and funerals
- Education
- 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
- Ian Skoggard ; 2004
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1962-1993
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1800-1990
- 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 with a foreword by John C. Caldwell
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-296) and index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 98039262
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Badaga (Indic people)