Book
Kindreds of the earth: Badaga household structure and demography
AltaMira Press • Walnut Creek, Calif. • Published In 1999 • Pages:
By: Hockings, Paul.
Abstract
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 attributes this surge to their successful adoptation to modernity, switching from subsistence farming (potatoes) to growing of cash crops (tea) and supplementing household income with wage and salary work. The availability and high cost of education has resulted in a reduction of fertility and family size, and a shift from joint- to nuclear-family households. Smaller household size is also a result of land scarcity and smaller landholdings, which require less labor to work. Hockings examines changes in cultivation practices, mortality, morbidity, age structure, marriage patterns, age of marriage, birth rates, education, and language use.
- HRAF PubDate
- 2005
- Region
- Asia
- Sub Region
- South Asia
- Document Type
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- Ian Skoggard ; 2004
- Field Date
- 1962-1993
- Coverage Date
- 1800-1990
- Coverage Place
- Nilgiri hills, Tamil Nadu State, India
- Notes
- Paul Hockings with a foreword by John C. Caldwell
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-296) and index
- LCCN
- 98039262
- LCSH
- Badaga (Indic people)