Perilous transactions
Subtitle: Papers in General and Indian Anthropology
By: Robert Parkin
Publisher: Sikshasandhan
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Bhubaneswar, Orissa, India ((www.sikshasandhan.org)
Language: eng
Number of pages: 327
Subjects: Anthropology.; Anthropology -- India.
First sentence: Anthropology is usually thought of today as the study of what it has come to be called the 'Other'- other peoples, other societies, other cultures...
Description: A collection of papers on general and Indian anthropolgy,the volume brings together a number of papers and lectures on various topics in Anthropology, many of them with special reference to India. Part-I concentrates on general topics starting with a personal view of anthropology, continuing with chapters on Functionalism, Structuralism and Symbolic Anthropology and concluding with a chapter on the connection between joking relationships and kinship; and a review of the topic of ethnicity. Part-II focusses on kinship in India and concludes with a comparative study of identity in selected Indian tribes. Part-III has chapters on evolution, structuralism, a critique of a work on sociobiology and a review of kingly theories of caste in India.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [306]-327).650
"Professor N.K. Behura felicitation volume."
Table of contents: label: ONE
title: LECTURES IN GENERAL ANTHROPOLOGY; label: 1
title: Introduction: The Anthropological Project
pagenum: 1; label: 2
title: Formal Approaches in Anthropology: Durkheim, Mallinowski, Radcliffe-Brown and Levi-Strauss
pagenum: 16; label: 3
title: After Structuralism: Semantic Anthropology and Postmodernism
pagenum: 35; label: 4
title: Symbolism in Anthropology
pagenum: 58; label: 5
title: The Joking Relationship and Kinship: Charting a Theoretical Dependency
pagenum: 80; label: 6
title: Ethnicity: Anthropological Approaches
pagenum: 95; label: TWO
title: KINSHIP AND IDENTITY IN INDIA; label: 7
title: Kinship in India: North and South
pagenum: 125; label: 8
title: Tribal Kinship in India and its Theoretical Significance
pagenum: 150; label: 9
title: South Asian Kinship Systems: A Historical Approach to Comparison
pagenum: 164; label: 10
title: Symbolic Marriages and Reincarnation in India
pagenum: 185; label: 11
title: Caste, Kinship and Identity in India
pagenum: 199; label: 12
title: The Concept of Ethnicity as applied to selected 'Tribal' Communities in Orissa
pagenum: 216; label: THREE
title: ESSAYS ON STRUCTURALISM AND SCIENCE; label: 13
title: Durkheimian Evolution in the work of Marcel Mauss
pagenum: 237; label: 14
title: Oscillation as Structural Principle in Anthropological Analysis
pagenum: 248; label: 15
title: Dumont's lectures on Kinship: A Preface
pagenum: 266; label: 16
title: Altruism, Kinship and Sociobiology
pagenum: 271; label: 17
title: Perilous Transactions: Kingly Theories of Caste and their Resolution
pagenum: 291; title: Bibliography
pagenum: 306; title: Index
pagenum: 329