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This volume, the fifth and last in honour of M.N. Srinivas, deals with issues related to religion and kinship. The essays extend and diversify some of the concerns in modern sociological and social anthropological studies of religion in India pioneered by M N Srinivas.The essays in this volume deal with issues related to religion and kinship, extending and diversifying some of the concerns in modern sociological and social anthropological studies on religion in India pioneered by M N Srinivas. The contributors analyze varied themes including: differences between the beliefs and practices of Hinduism and Sikhism; the division of male and female within the self; the translation of pollution ideas from ancient to modern societies; crisis management in Indian families; distribution of property in a matrilineal Muslim society; and hypergamy and hypogamy in pre-modern Kerala. |
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| Author(s) : A.M. Shah & Veena Das | Format : Hardback Book |
| ISBN-10 : 0761992553 | ISBN-13 : 9780761992554 |
| RRP : £25.00 | Best available price : £ / $ |
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Series Title : Social structure & change
Country Publication : India
Publication Date : 30/08/1998
Publisher : Sage Publications India Pvt Ltd
Page Length : 212mm
Page Size : 216mm