Book
From field to factory: community structure and industrialization in West Bengal
Institute for the Study of Human Issues • Philadelphia, Pa. • Published In 1978 • Pages:
By: Klass, Morton.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This work is a study of the contemporary village of Gôndôgram (a pseudonymn) in West Bengal, India, during the early 1970s. The author explores and illustrates the complexities of community life in the village through the media of discussions on economic transactions, social relationships, and regligious beliefs and practices. In the course of his presentation, Klass examines certain previously held approaches to the nature of Indian village culture and suggests some new ones of his own. The principle objective of this work, however, '…is to shed some light on the mechanism, processes, and events of change -- as modern industry and the West Bengal rural community come into contact with each other' (p. 24). The author illustrates how such changes take place by his example of the establishment of the 'Das-Walters' bicycle factory just outside Gôndôgram and the multiple effects of its presence on the lives of the agriculturally oriented villagers.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Sociocultural trends
- Domesticated animals
- Cereal agriculture
- Manufacture of vehicles
- Real property
- Ethnic stratification
- Household
- Extended families
- Community structure
- General character of religion
- Prayers and sacrifices
- Organized ceremonial
- Ethnopsychology
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Bengali
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2002
- 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 ; 1992
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1970-1975 [p.5]
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- not specified
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- 'Gôndôgram' [p.4] in the Asansol subdivision of District Burdwan, West Bengal, India
- NotesAdditional notes
- [by] Morton Klass
- Includes index. Bibliography: p. 256-259
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 78001552
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Bengalis