The Toda People of South India
Subtitle: Between Tradition and Modernity
Edition: Reprint edition
Publisher: BR Publishers, New Delhi
Published: May 5, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 275
ISBN-13: 9788176463676
Subjects: Toda (Indic people), Nilgiri Hills (Social life and customs), India (Nilgiri Hills)
Description: New release  of earlier book Between Tradition and Modernity and Other Essays in the Toda of South India (1998), with new title and slightly altered dustjacket.
     The book contains essays on the Toda of South India. it begins with an essay "Toda Society: Between Tradition and Modernity" to provide the background for all that will follow. The second essay: "A Thousand Out of Eight Hundred Million: Who Cares?" is an attempt to explain just why the Toda, despite being one of India's smallest communities, are yet among the best known in the ethnographic record, not only of India, but of the whole world. The next two chapters deal with aspects of Toda ethnography, but presented in radically different ways. Chapter 3 is a polemical paper, attacking some and supporting other modern secondary analyses of the Toda kinship and marriage systems. Chapter 4 is a straightforward account of a famous Toda ritual: the giving by a man of a symbolic bow-and-arrow to a woman. Chapter 5 takes up the subject of the earliest Christian missions to the Toda community. Chapter 6 deals with the Toda people and how they have thoroughly charmed generation upon generation of Westerners. Chapter 7 discusses whether the designation of certain types of human societies as "tribes" or "tribal" has any explanatory value at all. Chapter 8 is the author's response to Professor Stephen Tyler's criticisms of his book 'The Toda of South India: A New Look." The final chapter "Reporting the Toda: 1602-1993", is a bibliographical essay to indicate the extraordinary wealth of documentation available to the researcher of Toda socio-cultural institutions. The book is dedicated to Murray Barnson Emeneau, truly the modern 'guru' of Toda Studies.
Table of contents: title: Preface	vii-x1; title: Contents	xiii-iv; title: List of Tables, Figures, Maps and Plates	xv-xix; title: 1. Toda Society: Between Tradition and Modernity (1989)	1-45; title: 2. A Thousand Out of Eight Hundred Million! Who Cares? Some Thoughts on th Significance of Toda Studies for Cultural Anthropology (1991)	47-64; title: 3. Od Siblings and Cousins: Some Notes on Toda Kinship in the Light of Recent Writings (1987)	65-79; title: 4. Establishing Paternity: The Pis itt Rite of the Toda (1985)	81-88; title: 5. Early Seventeenth Century Christian Missions to the Toda of the Niilgiri Hills (1969/93)	89-114; title: 6. Ars and O:l: The Western Romance with the Toda (1991)	115-142; title: 7. Are the Toda a Tribe? (1988)	143-150; title: 8. Musings from the Armchair: Stephen Tyler on Toda Social Organization (1990)	151-155; title: 9. Reporting the Toda 1602-1993: A Bibliographic Essay (1993)	157-208; title: Appendix 1: Toda Demogreaphics (1): Oerthodox Toda Pipulation by Patriclan Affiliation in 1988	209-210; title: Appendix 2: Toda Demographics (2): Population of Toda Hamlets Permanently Occupied in August 1988	211-215; title: Appendix 3: Toda Demographics (3): A Comparison between Toda Orthodox and Christian Communities	216-217; title: Appendix 4: Badaga Names for Occupied Toda Hamlets	218-219; title: Glossary	221-223; title: Bibliography of References Cited	225-251; title: Author Index	253-256; title: General Index	257-270