Concepts of person
Subtitle: kinship, caste, and marriage in India
By: edited by Ákos Östör, Lina Fruzzetti, and Steve Barnett ; contributors, Ákos Östör ... [et al.].
Contributors: Östör, Ákos.; Fruzzetti, Lina.; Barnett, Steve, 1941-
Series: Oxford India paperbacks
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Delhi; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
Subjects: Kinship -- India -- Congresses.; Marriage customs and rites -- India -- Congresses.; Caste -- India -- Congresses.; India -- Social life and customs -- Congresses.
Notes: Based on papers discussed at a conference held at Harvard University, Dec. 10-13, 1976.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: Concepts of person: fifteen years later / Ákos Östör, Lina Fruzzetti; value: Introduction / Ákos Östör, Lina Fruzzetti, Steve Barnett; value: The cultural construction of the person in Bengal and Tamilnadu / Lina Fruzzetti, Ákos Östör, and Steve Barnett; value: Bad blood in Bengal / Lina Fruzzetti and Ákos Östör; value: Forms of address in the north Indian family / Sylvia Vatuk; value: The ideology of the householder among the Kashmiri pandits / T.N. Madan; value: Hierarchy and the concept of the person in western India / Anthony T. Carter; value: From Kanyā to Mātā / R.S. Khare; value: Widowhood among "untouchable" chuhras / Pauline Kolenda; value: Conclusion / Ákos Östör, Lina Fruzzetti, Steve Barnett.