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 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 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 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 Rites of Spring written by Ralph W. Nicholas and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With an essay on medieval ballad Dharmamaṅgala written by Sītārāma Dāsa, 17th century Bengali poet.
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 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.
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 Caste Kinship and Community written by Satadal Dasgupta and published by Madras : Universities Press (India). This book was released on 1986 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 of Ethnicity written by Sara Shneiderman and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2015-02-02 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rituals of Ethnicity is a transnational study of the relationships between mobility, ethnicity, and ritual action. Through an ethnography of the Thangmi, a marginalized community who migrate between Himalayan border zones of Nepal, India, and the Tibetan Autonomous Region of China, Shneiderman offers a new explanation for the persistence of enduring ethnic identities today despite the increasing realities of mobile, hybrid lives. She shows that ethnicization may be understood as a process of ritualization, which brings people together around the shared sacred object of identity. The first comprehensive ethnography of the Thangmi, Rituals of Ethnicity is framed by the Maoist-state civil conflict in Nepal and the movement for a separate state of Gorkhaland in India. The histories of individual nation-states in this geopolitical hotspot—as well as the cross-border flows of people and ideas between them—reveal the far-reaching and mutually entangled discourses of democracy, communism, development, and indigeneity that have transformed the region over the past half century. Attentive to the competing claims of diverse members of the Thangmi community, from shamans to political activists, Shneiderman shows how Thangmi ethnic identity is produced collaboratively by individuals through ritual actions embedded in local, national, and transnational contexts. She builds upon the specificity of Thangmi experiences to tell a larger story about the complexities of ethnic consciousness: the challenges of belonging and citizenship under conditions of mobility, the desire to both lay claim to and remain apart from the civil society of multiple states, and the paradox of self-identification as a group with cultural traditions in need of both preservation and development. Through deep engagement with a diverse, cross-border community that yearns to be understood as a distinctive, coherent whole, Rituals of Ethnicity presents an argument for the continued value of locally situated ethnography in a multisited world. Cover art: Lost Culture Can Not Be Reborn, painting by Mahendra Thami, Darjeeling, West Bengal, India.
Download or read book Culture and Power written by Ákos Östör and published by SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited. This book was released on 1984-05-31 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Akos Ostor's work is an interpretive study of cultural forms and meaning in the social relations of everyday life in Vishnupur, India. Culture and Power considers basic issues of anthropology, problems in the study of social categories and concepts and the social reality, the impact of the West on India.
Download or read book Myth Ritual And Religion Vol 1 written by Andrew Lang and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-12-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Andrew Lang, a Scottish anthropologist and folklorist, wrote the landmark work "Myth, Ritual, and Religion," Volume 1. This work contributes significantly to anthropology and religious studies. In this volume, Lang investigates the interdependence of myth, ritual, and theology in a variety of cultures and communities. He delves into myths and rituals from various civilizations, including ancient Greece, Rome, Egypt, and indigenous cultures. Lang studies how myths and rituals can commonly play an important role in molding a society's religious beliefs and practices. He investigates the symbolic value of myths and rituals, emphasizing their role in understanding the mysteries of life, death, and the natural world. Lang's work is notable for its comparative technique, which connects nations in order to discover universal themes and patterns in myth and ritual. He contends that these traditions and ceremonies are not merely historical relics, but they continue to influence present religious’ practices and ideals. Some stories are brutal and weird, while others creep up on you and draw you in slowly. With an eye-catching new cover and professionally typeset copy, this edition of "Myth, Ritual, and Religion Vol. 1" is both current and intelligible.
Download or read book Cooking for the Gods written by Edward C. Dimock and published by Newark Museum Assn. This book was released on 1995 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Gift of a Virgin written by Lina Fruzzetti and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Language and Social Relations written by Asif Agha and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-11-16 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Language is closely linked to our social relationships and is the medium through which we participate in a variety of social activities. This fascinating study explores the important role of language in various aspects of our social life, such as identity, gender relations, class, kinship, status, and hierarchies. Drawing on data from over thirty different languages and societies, it shows how language is more than simply a form of social action; it is also an effective tool with which we formulate models of social life and conduct. These models - or particular forms of social behaviour - are linked to the classification of 'types' of action or actor, and are passed 'reflexively' from person to person, and from generation to generation. Providing a unified way of accounting for a variety of social phenomena, this book will be welcomed by all those interested in the interaction between language, culture, and society.
Download or read book Bagals of Border Bengal written by Swapan Kumar Chakraborty (Anthropologist) and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
