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Title: Tribe, Caste & Peasantry
Description: Lucknow, Ethnographic...Society, (1974). orig. wrappers. xiii,390 pp,, 24x16cm, Contains 32 papers.. Textual tables. Some wear. Spine chipped and torn, Corners bumped. Good. ¶ Includes: K.P.Chattopadhyay "Khasi landownership & sale"; J.S. Bhandari " Land & social structure: An economic study of a Mishing Village"; Bhabananda Mukherjee "Machong among the Garo"; B.B. Goswami "Structural phenomenon of kinship with regard to the Lushai (Mizo)"; F.G. Bailey " Political change in the Kondmals"; Louis Dumont "Kinship & alliance among the Pramalai Kallar"; Christoph von Furer-Haimendorf "Status & interaction among the high Hindu castes of Nepal"; John T. Hitchcock "Fatalistic suicide resulting from adaptation to an asymmetrical sex ratio"; G.S. Bhatt "Trends & measures of status mobility among the Chamars of Dehradun";Colin Rosser "An aspect of the political organization of Malana"; S.C. Dube " Ranking of castes in Telangana villages"; C.M. Abraham "The custom of polyandry as practiced in Travancore"; Harold A. Gould "Peasant village-Centrifugal or Centripetal"; Adrian C. Mayer "Local government elections in a Malwa village"; A.B. Bose "Rural family organization in Western Rajasthan"; Scarlett Epstein "A sociological analysis of witch beliefs in a Mysore village", etc.

Keywords: Indian Ethnology, Rural sociology, Land tenure, Caste, Peasantry, Social status, Tribe, India, South Asia, Social anthropology

Price: US$ 53.00 Seller: Expatriate Bookshop of Denmark
- Book number: BOOKS004793I