Public Faces, Private Lives
Subtitle: Community and Individuality in South India
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: December 19, 1994
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780520084780
Subjects: Anthropology; Social groups & communities; National characteristics, East Indian; India - History; Social History; History - General History; Sociology; ASIA; Anthropology - General; Asia - India & South Asia; Customs & Traditions; Social Science / Anthropology / General; India, South; Social life and customs
First sentence: Before we can understand the community of George Town and examine why it is organized in the manner that it is, it is necessary to understand the nature of civic individuality and the highly personalized nature of social relationships in south Indian society that make identity so important.