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Marriage and rank in Bengali cultureBook 1976 • Inden, Ronald B.
Bengali • Asia > South Asia
This study, a revision of the author's Ph. D. dissertation (University of Chicago, 1972), is a detailed historical account of marriage and clan rank among two of the highest castes in Bengal -...Kinship in Bengali cultureBook 1977 • Inden, Ronald B. & Nicholas, Ralph W.
Bengali • Asia > South Asia
The approach to Bengali kinship as presented in this work is based primarily on David M. Schneider's analysis in 'American Kinship' (l968). The authors, as with Schneider, define the 'kinship ...