Bengali
Contributors: Harris, Michael S.; Inden, Ronald B.; Roy, Manisha, 1936-; Östör, Ákos; Bertocci, Peter J.; Bertocci, Peter J.; Bhattacharyya, Manibrata; Bhattacharya, Bela (Anthropologist); Bhattacharyya, Deborah P., 1943-; Davis, Marvin, 1944-; Davis, Marvin, 1944-; Islam, A. K. M. Aminul; Khan, Zillur R. (Zillur Rahman), 1938-; Klass, Morton, 1927-2001; Klass, Morton, 1927-2001; Mashreque, Md. Shairul; Mashreque, Md. Shairul; Rohner, Ronald Preston, 1935-; Wallace, Ben J., 1937-; Wilce, James MacLynn, 1953-; Human Relations Area Files, inc
Series: eHRAF world cultures. Asia; eHRAF world cultures
Publisher: Human Relations Area Files
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New Haven, Conn
Language: eng
Subjects: Bengali (South Asian people); Ethnology; Civilization
Description: The Bengali people live in the Bengal region of India in northeastern South Asia. This region is divided politically between the nation of Bangladesh and the Indian state of West Bengal. The file contains 30 documents; 19 focus on Hindu Bengalis in West Bengal and the rest on the Muslim Bengalis in Bangladesh. Most of the research is based on village studies; the major foci are social structure, gender, religion, and land tenure.
Notes: Title from Web page (viewed July 28, 2008).

This portion of the eHRAF collection of ethnography was last updated in 2002 and is a revision and update of the microfiche file.

Includes bibliographical references.

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Table of contents: title: Elusive villages ; Models of solidarity, structures of power  -- Peter J. Bertocci; title: Purity and impurity in the death rituals of Bengal ; Attitudes of modernity among urban females in Bengal  -- Manibrata Bhattacharyya; title: Bengali conceptions of mental illness  -- Deborah Poole Bhattacharyya; title: A philosophy of Hindu rank from rural West Bengal ; Rank and rivalry  -- Marvin Davis; title: Conch shell bangles, iron bangles ; Introduction to second Indian impression ; Kinship and ritual in Bengal ; The cultural construction of the person in Bengal and Tamilnadu ; The gift of a virgin  -- Lina M. Fruzzetti; title: Diversity in a Bangladeshi village ; Land, inheritance, and economic mobility ; Land, power relations, and colonialism  -- Michael S. Harris; title: Kinship in Bengali culture ; Marriage and rank in Bengali culture  -- Ronald B. Inden; title: A Bangladesh village  -- A.K.M. Aminul Islam; title: Minorities in Bangladesh  -- Zillur R. Khan; title: From field to factory ; Marriage rules in Bengal  -- Morton Klass; title: A study of traditional adjudication in rural Bangladesh ; Political economy of peasant community in Bangladesh  -- Md. Shairul Mashreque; title: Women and children in a Bengali village  -- Ronald Preston Rohner; title: Afterword ; Bengali women  -- Manisha Roy; title: The invisible resource  -- Ben J. Wallace; title: Discourse, power, and the diagnosis of weakness  -- James MacLynn Wilce; title: Culture and power ; The play of the gods -- Akos Östör.