In this task you will be given a text passage from a trivia quiz. You should choose the category this question belongs to from these categories: History, Science, Social Science, Fine Arts, Literature. You can only choose one category, so if in doubt, please choose the closest match.

As a child, this character reads his uncle the column That Body of Yours every Sunday. He sleeps with a cutlass and buys a puppy named Tarzan to protect himself while waiting for Mr. Maclean to finish building a shelter in the Green Vale, which is ultimately burnt down by sugarcane farmers. His father drowns after diving into a pool in a misguided attempt to save this character, who is actually hiding under a bed to avoid punishment for losing a calf. After his son Anand abandons him, he begins to work as a reporter for The Sentinel in Port of Spain. This character works as a sign painter, which brings him to Hanuman House, where he marries Shama by the Tulsi family. For 10 points, name this six-fingered character who struggles to get a house in a novel by V. S. Naipaul.
Literature

In one myth this deity laid the egg that would become the world and his association with the equinoxes led to his epithet as the god of balance. His center of worship was at Khmunu and one of his wives, Seshat, was the inventor of writing. He carried the eye of Ra in his role as messenger, but is better known for weighing the hearts of the deceased in his role as judge of the dead. Often depicted as a baboon, he hid Horus from Set after the latter killed Osiris and returned Tefnut to Ra's fold. FTP name this Egyptian god of scribes, wisdom, and the moon, most commonly depicted with the head of an ibis.
Social Science

One tribe in this country had two opposing sorcerors, the bari and the aroettowaraare. The book The Masters and the Slaves argued that a "polygamous patriarchal regime" in this country's early history allowed the miscegenation that gave this nation its identity. One ethnography set in this country described how children whose mothers considered them fated to die from "child sickness" were often just malnourished. This setting of Death Without Weeping is home to the Piraha people, whom Daniel Everett claimed to lack recursion. In Tristes Tropiques, Claude Levi-Strauss describes his travels to study this country's Nambikwara, Tupi-Kawahib, and Bororo people. For 10 points, name this home of Gilberto Freyre where Nancy Scheper-Hughes documented conditions in the favelas
History