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Culture summaryessay 2005 • Hockings, Paul
Badaga • Asia > South Asia
This is a culture summary of the Badaga. Information is presented on major aspects of Badaga culture....Ancient Hindu refugeesBook 1980 • Hockings, Paul
Badaga • Asia > South Asia
This source on Badaga social history between 1550 and 1975 is one of the primary sources in the Badaga file. The topics discussed by the author include clan and phratry legends of the Badaga migration from Mysore to the Nilgiri Plateau, place names a...On giving salt to buffaloesarticle 1968 • Hockings, Paul
Badaga • Asia > South Asia
This source focuses on an analysis of the ceremonial events of the biannual (sometimes triannual) ritual of giving salt to the buffaloes. The author intends his analysis as a response to Wallace's (1966) argument that ritual is communication without ...Sex and disease in a mountain communityBook 1980 • Hockings, Paul
Badaga • Asia > South Asia
This source is essentially a study of Badaga folk medicine with a concentration on both the cultural context of therapy and its wide-ranging pharmacopoeia. Although a major section of the book deals with the Badaga classification of curable illnesses...Cultural change among the BadagasBook 1989 • Hockings, Paul
Badaga • Asia > South Asia
This source is concerned with sociocultural change among the Badagas during the past 150 years, with a focus on the period from 1913 to 1963. The topics examined include the geographical, historical, and ethnic setting of Badaga society, social struc...The man named Unige Mada (Nilgiri Hills, Tamilnadu)essay 1987 • Hockings, Paul
Badaga • Asia > South Asia
This source consists of the text of and comments on a Badaga folktale which tells the story of a Kurumba who comes to the aid of a Badaga and eventually becomes his dependent....Badaga kinship rules in their socio-economic contextarticle 1982 • Hockings, Paul
Badaga • Asia > South Asia
This source examines several aspects of Badaga kinship, including kinship behavior, patriliny, and patrilocality, affinal relations, visiting, adoption and inheritance, kinship terminology, marriage patterns and regulations, and family structure....Mortuary ritual of the Badagas of southern Indiaarticle 2001 • Hockings, Paul
Badaga • Asia > South Asia
This is a reconstruction of a traditional Badaga funeral based on first-hand reports dating back to the early nineteenth century and the author's own field notes. Hockings presents the data in five stages: preparation, display, procession, disposal a...Kindreds of the earthBook 1999 • Hockings, Paul
Badaga • Asia > South Asia
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 attribu...