Book
Women and children in a Bengali village
Published for University of Connecticut, University Press of New England • Hanover, Conn. • Published In 1988 • Pages:
By: Rohner, Ronald Preston, Chaki-Sircar, Manjusri, University Of Connecticut.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The material in this work focuses on the role of women as wives and mothers and their relationship to their children (mostly in the six to twelve year old range), in the Brahman-dominated village of Palashpur (a pseudonymn), West Bengal. The source, which is one of the first full-scale ethnographic field studies to test the major postulates of parental acceptance-rejection theory, is divided into two major parts. Part 1 is basically a descriptive ethnography of life in Palashpur, providing an overall portrait of the village, and sex role relationships of women in both high caste and 'untouchable' caste families. This section also deals with intercaste dependencies, caste differences in life-style, and intercaste tensions, and forms the context for the interpretations of the sociometric data presented in part 2. Part 2 '…concentrates on the warmth dimension of parenting (i.e., on perceived maternal acceptance-rejection) and on the effects and determinants of perceived maternal acceptance in the village' (pp. xvii-xviii). This 'warmth dimension' is measured by the field team through a series of self-report questionnaires administered to the research sample (fifty-two children and their parents), and designed to measure the individuals' perception of maternal warmth and their perceptions of their own personality dispositions (p. xx). The statistical analysis of the results of these questionnaires make up the major portion of this section.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Behavior processes and personality
- Gender status
- Castes
- Family relationships
- Spirits and gods
- Organized ceremonial
- Child care
- Childhood activities
- 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 TypesThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Indigenous Person
- 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
- Feb. 1981-Oct. 1982 (p. xiii-xiv)
- 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)
- 'Palashpur', West Bengal, India
- NotesAdditional notes
- [by] Ronald P. Rohner and Manjusri Chaki-Sircar
- Includes index. Bibliography: p. [201]-205.
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 87025463
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Bengalis