Book
Elusive villages: social structure and community organization in rural East Pakistan
University Microfilms International • Ann Arbor, Mich. • Published In 1992 • Pages:
By: Bertocci, Peter J..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This dissertation analyzes the relationship between community organization and social structure in part of Comilla district (THANA), East Pakistan. The source combines the methods and concepts inherent in cultural ecology '…with certain social structural insights of Marx and Weber' (p. i-(A)). Of primary concern to Bertocci is the process by means of which class, status and power function together to '…regulate the workings and the interdigitation of territorially and functionally overlapping social groups' (p. 3). These groups are largely represented in this work by the REYAI (homestead-based residential units), and the extra-village SAMAJ (social groupings of several villages and their subunits). The dynamics of the social system operating within the confines of these social groups are analyzed in detail in this source with particular reference to the economic class, social status, and political power relationships which characterize the system.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Theoretical orientation in research and its results
- Settlement patterns
- Real property
- Cooperative organization
- Status, role, and prestige
- Gender status
- Castes
- Classes
- Ingroup antagonisms
- Household
- Extended families
- Lineages
- Community structure
- Towns
- 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
- no date
- 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)
- Comilla District, Bangladesh
- NotesAdditional notes
- [by] Peter J. Bertocci
- Thesis (Ph.D.) -- Michigan State University, 1970
- UM: AAC7102030
- Bibliography: p. 190-197
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- none
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Bengalis