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: 1992
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: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Based on papers discussed at a conference held at Harvard University, Dec. 10-13, 1976.
Originally published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1982. With new introd.
Table of contents: title: Concepts of person: fifteen years later / Ákos Östör, Lina Fruzzetti; title: Introduction / Ákos Östör, Lina Fruzzetti, Steve Barnett; title: The cultural construction of the person in Bengal and Tamilnadu / Lina Fruzzetti, Ákos Östör, and Steve Barnett; title: Bad blood in Bengal / Lina Fruzzetti and Ákos Östör; title: Forms of address in the north Indian family / Sylvia Vatuk; title: The ideology of the householder among the Kashmiri pandits / T.N. Madan; title: Hierarchy and the concept of the person in western India / Anthony T. Carter; title: From Kanyā to Mātā / R.S. Khare; title: Widowhood among "untouchable" chuhras / Pauline Kolenda; title: Conclusion / Ákos Östör, Lina Fruzzetti, Steve Barnett.