Parry Caste and Kinship in Kangra

Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-1-136-54585-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 376 Seiten

This study is a major addition to understanding the problems of social inequality and the nature of caste and kinship. A full account is given of the social structure of the region, emphasizing the continuity of principles, which govern relations between castes and relationships within castes.
The ethnographic data bear in particular on: the nature of untouchability; models of caste ranking; the way in which 'traditional' family structures adapt to a diversification of the economy and the debate about the 'instability' of regimes of generalized exchange.
Originally published in 1979.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Parry, Jonathan P.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part 1: Inter-caste relations

1. Introduction: the axiom and idiom of inequality

2. The setting

3. The economy

4. The hierarchical aspects of caste

Part 2: The internal structure of the caste

5. Clans and their segments

6. Households and their partition

7. Rajput hypergamy in an historical perspective

8. The 'biradari' reform movement

9. Marriage strategies

10. Affines and consanguines

11. Conclusion: The limits of hierarchy