Buch, Englisch, 228 Seiten, Format (B × H): 138 mm x 216 mm
Life in a Gond Village
Buch, Englisch, 228 Seiten, Format (B × H): 138 mm x 216 mm
ISBN: 978-0-19-562856-2
Verlag: Oxford University Press
Originally a missionary, Verrier Elwin became one of India's greatest anthropologists. This lively, touching book draws on the diary he kept during his stay in the Maikal hill-village of Karanjia between 1932 and 1936. Writing with the ease of a born raconteur, Elwin provides a colourful picture of Gond life and depicts the efforts of an Ashram's diverse inmates (`Christians, Hindus, a Brahmin, a Mussalman, Gonds, Polytheists, henogamists, monogamists, celibates.all united') to improve the quality of education, diet, health, agriculture, and dress in the village.
Originally a missionary, Verrier Elwin became one of India's greatest anthropologists. This lively, touching book draws on the diary he kept during his stay in the Maikal hill-village of Karanjia between 1932 and 1936. Writing with the ease of a born raconteur, Elwin provides a colourful picture of Gond life and depicts the efforts of an Ashram's diverse inmates (`Christians, Hindus, a Brahmin, a Mussalman, Gonds, Polytheists, henogamists, monogamists, celibates.all united') to improve the quality of education, diet, health, agriculture, and dress in the village.
