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Kinship and ritual in Bengal: anthropological essays
South Asian Publishers • New Delhi • Published In 1984 • Pages:
By: Fruzzetti, Lina M., Östör, Ákos.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This work is a collection of essays, written over a ten year period, which have previously appeared in various journals and books in both India and America. The focus of the study is on the everyday life and relationships among the people of the West Bengal town of Vishnupur. The major portion of these anthropological essays deals with one common concern, '…the analysis of social relationships through indigenous cultural categories' (p. vii), and as such represents a sustained attempt at cultural interpretation. The subject matter of these papers ranges from a technical critique of approaches to kinship terminology, to life cycle events and rituals, and concepts of the individual and their relationship to the Bengali hierarchy. This study also provides much information on the status of Bengali women, and cultural similarities and differences between the Hindu and Muslim components of the society.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Kinship terminology
- Kin relationships
- Theoretical orientation in research and its results
- Regulation of marriage
- Lineages
- Pregnancy
- Childbirth
- Postnatal care
- Purification and atonement
- Gender status
- Ritual
- Religious denominations
- 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
- collection
- 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
- 1967-1973, various trips [p. vii]
- 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)
- Vishnupur, West Bengal, India
- NotesAdditional notes
- [by] Lina Fruzzetti, Akos östör
- Contains materials previously published in various sources
- Includes bibliographies
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Bengalis