Author: Madan, T.N.
Title: Family and Kinship: A Study of the Pandits of Rural Kashmir
Description: Delhi, Oxford University Press, (1989). 2nd Edition, orig.cloth. 22x14cm, xxvi,325,(12)p, Second Enlarged Edition.. 13pp photoplate. Some minor rubbing. Slight binding corner bump. VG. dustwrapper ¶ Contents: Introduction: Problems & Methods; Kashmiri Pandits: History & Social Organization; Utrassu-Umanagri; The Homestead & the Household; Recruitment to the Household: Birth & Adioption; Marriage & Incorporation; The Economic Aspect of the Household; Partition of the Household; The Family & the Patrilineage; The Wider Kinship Structure: Non-Agnatic Kin; Household & the Family Among the Pandits of Rural Kashmir; Appendices: Structural Implications of Marriage: Wife-Givers & Wife-Takers; The Ideology of the Householder; The Language of Kinship: Kinship Terminology; Proverbs; The 'Convoy': A Note on Five Informants; On Living Intimately with Strangers.

Keywords: Social Anthropology, Kashmiri Pandits, Ethnography, Ethnology, Sociology, Kinship, Kashmir, India, South Asia