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Concepts of person : kinship, caste, and marriage in India
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- Creator
- edited by Ákos Östör, Lina Fruzzetti, and Steve Barnett ; contributors, Ákos Östör ... [and others]
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- Language
- English
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- Publication
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- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1982
- Physical Details
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- xiv, 271 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780674157651, 0674157656
- OCLC
- ocm08243127
- Based on papers discussed at a conference held at Harvard University, Dec. 10-13, 1976.
- Includes index.
- Bibliography: pages [249]-264.
- The cultural construction of the person in Bengal and Tamilnadu / Lina Fruzzetti, Ákos Östör, and Steve Barnett -- Bad blood in Bengal / Lina Fruzzetti and Ákos Östör -- Forms of address in the north Indian family / Sylvia Vatuk -- The ideology of the householder among the Kashmiri pandits / T.N. Madan -- Hierarchy and the concept of the person in western India / Anthony T. Carter -- From Kanyā to Mātā / R.S. Khare -- Widowhood among "untouchable" chuhras / Pauline Kolenda