Download or read book Kinship and Ritual in Bengal written by Lina Fruzzetti and published by New Delhi : South Asian Publishers. This book was released on 1984 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Kinship in Bengali culture written by Ronald B. Inden and published by Orient Blackswan. This book was released on 2005 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Book Analyzes The Kinship System Of A Major Human Society That Possesses An Ancient, Literate Civilization And A Tradition Of Analytical Thought.
Download or read book Caste Kinship and Community written by Satadal Dasgupta and published by Orient Blackswan. This book was released on 1993 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With reference to the Dule Bagdis, cultivating and fishing caste in West Bengal.
Download or read book Rituals and Kin in Bengal written by Anindita Majumdar and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do rites of passage construct interpersonal kin relationships? Are they merely prescriptions and rules that social relations have to follow, or do they mask contradictions and conflicts within their practice? The book looks at the ways in which 'kin' and the 'non-kin' negotiate the idea of kinship through rituals of marriage, birth and death. In the process notions that come to be integral to the idea of kinship such a blood, marriage and distance in ties are examined.
Download or read book An Abode of the Goddess written by Masahiko Togawa and published by Manohar Publishers and Distributors. This book was released on 2006 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, based on the field survey, is about a village society in Bengal, and its relationship with Hindu kingship on the ritual organisation of an old temple. The village temple is well known for being one of 51 sakta-pithas scattered over the Indian subcontinent. Sakta-pithas mean centres of Sakti worship or seat of the Goddess Sati (another name of the Goddess Durga) in Bengali, where the body parts of the Goddess Sati fell to earth after she had been cut to pieces by the discus of Visnu. Every place believed to have a Sati's limb became the centre for the worship of the Sakti-cult, or an abode of the goddess (pitha-sthan). The village temple prospered under the patronage of Maharaja Kirtichand (1702-40) of Bardhaman Raj, though the temple history is far older than this. At the beginning of British rule, the Royal family of Bardhaman became the largest zamindar in Bengal. They exercised great authority over the local society which is still observable in the various ritual processes. The temple organisation consists of the ritual posts and roles assigned to the various castes, lineages and household, which are fundamentally based on the kinship relations in the village. At the same time, the temple organisation is founded on the service tenures granted by the Bardhaman Raj since the early eighteenth century, and even the village untouchables are endowed with indispensable roles in the temple ritual as servants of the goddess. The analysis reveals the strong influences of the indigenous polity over ordinary life in the rural society.
Download or read book The Ethics of Kinship written by James D. Faubion and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2001 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects eleven written primarily by anthropologists and graduate students at Rice University focusing on a variety of complex kinship arrangements involving entanglements of nation, class, ethnicity, gender, and desire. Topics include reflections on relatives and relational dynamics in Trinidad; the public politics of intimacy in the Bloomsbury Group; and families of origin, families of choice, and class mobility. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book The Gift of a Virgin written by Lina Fruzzetti and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1990 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This intimate study vividly portrays the activities and rituals of life in Vishnupur, a large town in West Bengal. Fruzzetti shows how rituals are crucial to a better understanding of women's daily lives, and to Indian society as a whole. She explores the public lives of these Bengali women, as well as their private lives. The work demonstrates how rituals define their private world--customs, habits, and actions restricted to the conduct by women as opposed to the public rituals and festivals over which men preside. Though their two worlds are separate, Bengali women are neither isolated from or inferior to men. In this second impression, Fruzzetti has added a new introduction in which she questions how has a social system that traditionally held women in such high esteem allow such aberrations as bride burning, exorbitant dowry demands, and other forms of harassment, and the reactions of the women's movements in India.
Download or read book Kinship and Family Among Muslims in Bengal written by and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Kinship in Bengali Culture written by B. Inden Ronald and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Two Faces of Protest written by Amrita Basu and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on case studies of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) in West Bengal and Shramik Sangathana in Maharashtra, this ground-breaking new work examines Indian women's political activism. Investigating institutional change at the state level and protest at the village level, Amrita Basu traces the paths of two kinds of political activism among these women. With insights gleaned from extensive interviews with activists, government officials, and ordinary men and women, she finds that militancy has been fueled by pronounced sexual and class cleavages combined with potentially rancorous ethnic division. Thorough in its fieldwork, incisive in its political analysis, Two Faces of Protest offers a richly textured and sensitive view of women's political activism in the Third World. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1992.
Download or read book Ethnography of a Nomadic Tribe written by N. Sudhakar Rao and published by Concept Publishing Company. This book was released on 2002 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Study with reference to Sriharikota, India.
Download or read book Foragers written by P. Vishnu Dev and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2016-05-26 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until few thousand years ago, virtually all humanity lived as hunters and gatherers. The same foragers may hold the key to some of the central questions about the human condition–social life, politics, economy and gender–about the possibility of living with nature, without destroying it. The intention behind this book is to make people understand how the Chenchu community has been constructed, developed and survived with their intelligence designs for thousands of years while protecting the ecology of their habitat. This research is aimed at studying and documenting the epistemological basis of the socio-cultural practices among the Chenchu community in the Nallamalla forest. The study has an immense scope to contribute to the understanding of tribal issues and challenges in a global context. The research findings of the study may provide a ground for debate and discussion,while influencing the policy and decision making towards safeguarding and development of Tribal habitats in India.
Download or read book Family School and Nation written by Nivedita Sen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-07-03 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This seminal work examines the concurrence of childhood rebellion and conformity in Bengali literary texts (including adult texts), a pertinent yet unexplored area, making it a first of its kind. It is a study of the voice of child protagonists across children’s and adult literature in Bengali vis-à-vis the institutions of family, the education system, and the nationalist movement in the ninenteenth and twentieth centuries.
Download or read book Transnational Commercial Surrogacy and the Un Making of Kin in India written by Anindita Majumdar and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-29 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As commercial surrogacy in India dominates public conversations around reproduction, new kinds of families, and changing trends in globalization, its lived realities become an important aspect of emerging research. This book maps the way in which in vitro fertilization (IVF) specialists, surrogacy agents, commissioning couples, surrogate mothers, and egg donors contribute to the understanding of interpersonal relations in the process of commercial surrogacy. In this book, Majumdar draws from a context that is enmeshed in the local–global politics of reproduction, including the ways in which the transnational commercial surrogacy arrangement has led to an ongoing debate regarding ethics and morality in the sphere of reproductive rights. In weaving together the diverse, often conflicting experiences of individuals and families, the transnational commercial surrogacy arrangement comes alive as a process mirroring larger societal anxieties with reference to technological interventions in intimate relationships. It is these anxieties, dilemmas, and their negotiations to which the book is addressed.
Download or read book The Play of the Gods written by Ákos Östör and published by Orient Blackswan. This book was released on 2004 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New Expanded And Illustrated Edition Of The Work First Published In 1980. Relates Two Festivals-Durgapuja In Some Of Goddess Durga, And Gajan In Honour Of Lord Siva. Presents An Inside New Of Society And Is The Only Complete Ethnographic Account Of A Major Ritual Cycle In India. 4 Chapters And 4 Appendices.
Download or read book The Sense of Adharma written by Ariel Glucklich and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1994 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Addressing one of the most difficult conceptual topics in the study of classical Hinduism, Ariel Glucklich presents a rigorous phenomenology of dharma, or order. The work moves away from the usual emphasis on symbols and theoretical formulations of dharma as a religious and moral norm. Instead, it focuses on images that emerge from the basic experiential interaction of the body in its spatial and temporal contexts, such as the sensation of water on the skin during the morning purification, or the physical manipulation of the bride during the marriage ritual. Images of dharma are examined in myths, rituals, art, and even the physical landscape of the Hindu world. The varied and contingent experiences of dharma infuse it with a meaning that transcends a false analytical distinction from adharma, or chaos. Glucklich shows that when dharma is experienced by means of living images, it becomes inescapably temporal, and therefore inseparable from adharma
Download or read book The Hour of the Goddess written by Chitrita Banerji and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 2006 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Food constitutes an integral aspect of the intellectual and cultural milieu of Bengal, and rituals, social customs and day-to-day routine are closely intertwined with the preparation of traditional dishes by the women of the household. The quintessential Bengali emphasis on food was brilliantly encapsulated by Chitrita Banerji in Life and Food in Bengal. In The Hour of the Goddess, she returns with an unbeatable combination of cultural insight, personal anecdote and mouthwatering recipes. Intimate yet objective, it examines the complex connection between gender and food preparation, and the intricate relationship between food, ritual and art in Bengal. Written in her inimitable style, the book takes the reader on a journey that spans Banerji's personal growth from girlhood to womanhood in Calcutta. Gastronomy and social commentary combine to form a lucid, thoroughly enjoyable book that covers, among other things, offerings made to gods, restrictions imposed on widows, cooking tools, the role played by maidservants in Bengali households, and customs associated with eating. Beautifully written and meticulously researched, The Hour of the Goddess is a finely crafted masterpiece that is at once memoir, food guide and cultural history.
