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Record Nr.

UNINA9910808580103321

Autore

Hiebert Paul G. <1932-2007.>

Titolo

Konduru : structure and integration in a South Indian village / / Paul G. Hiebert

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis : , : University of Minnesota Press, , [1971]

ISBN

0-8166-5787-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xi, 192 pages) : illustrations, maps

Disciplina

301.29/54/84

Soggetti

Caste - India - Kondūru

Panchayat - India - Kondūru

Kondūru (India) Social conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-185) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- CONTENTS -- ONE. SEASONS AND SETTING -- Seasons -- Historical Setting -- TWO. SOCIETAL CATEGORIES -- Social Units -- Resident Castes -- Hindu Varna Castes -- Harijan Castes -- Marginal Castes -- Transient Castes -- Muslim Castes -- THREE. SOCIAL GROUPS -- The Family -- The Local Patrilineage -- The Caste Group -- Associations -- Communities -- Hamlets, Villages, and Towns -- FOUR. STATUS AND POWER -- The Status Structure -- Pollution -- Caste Ranking -- Individual Ranking -- A Model of the Status Structure -- The Power Structure -- Sources of Power -- The Use of Power -- Conflict and Alliance -- Power Change -- FIVE. NETWORKS -- Jajmani -- Begar -- Debt -- Contractual Exchanges -- SIX. PANCHAYATS -- The Nature of Panchayat -- Intracaste Conflicts -- Regional Caste Organizations -- Intercaste Conflicts -- Intervillage Conflicts -- Konduru and the State Government -- Panchayats and Courts -- SEVEN. RITUALS -- Religion -- High Religion -- Low Religion -- Magic -- Rites and Ceremonies -- Confirmatory Rites -- Piacular Rites -- EIGHT. THE CHANGING SCENE -- Changes in Technology -- Changes in Government -- Changing Ideas -- NINE. CONCLUSIONS -- APPENDIXES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Photographs.



Sommario/riassunto

This is a detailed anthropological description and analysis of life in Konduru, a village in the central part of southern India about one hundred miles south of Hyderabad. The study is based on field work done by Professor Hiebert over a period of severa.