Kinship And History In South Asia

Author : Thomas R. Trautmann
Publisher : U OF M CENTER FOR SOUTH ASIAN STUDIES
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1974-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780883864173

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Kinship and History in South Asia by Thomas R. Trautmann Pdf

Kinship and History in South Asia presents four papers given at a small conference of kinship studies scholars, “Kinship and History in South Asia,” at the University of Toronto in 1973. They draw upon one another and show several common concerns, particularly the theoretical importance of Dravidian systems. Yey they remain specialist studies, each within its own raison d’être. Brendra E. F. Beck contributes a study of the “kinship nucleus” in Tamil folklore, Levi-Straussian both in its treatment of kinship and of mythology. George L. Hart’s study of woman and the sacred in the ancient Tamil literature of the Sangam attempts to elucidate this literature in its own terms, and also to relate it to Beck’s “kinship nucleus.” Thomas R. Trautmann presents a critical examination of the evidence for cross-cousin marriage in early North India, attempting to determine historical fact from literary materials. Narendra K. Wagle offers a survey of the kinship categories to be found in the Pali Jatakas.

Author : Thomas R. Trautmann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0891480072

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Kinship and History in South Asia by Thomas R. Trautmann Pdf

Author : Indrani Chatterjee
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0813533805

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Unfamiliar Relations by Indrani Chatterjee Pdf

Unfamiliar Relations restores the family and its many forms and meanings to a central place in the history of South Asia between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries. In her incisive introduction, Indrani Chatterjee argues that the recent wealth of scholarship on ethnicity, sexuality, gender, imperialism, and patriarchy in South Asia during the colonial period often overlooks careful historical analysis of the highly contested concept of family. Together, the essays in this book demolish "family" as an abstract concept in South Asian colonial history, demonstrating its exceedingly different meanings across temporal and geographical space. The scholarship in this volume reveals a far more complex set of dynamics than a simple binary between indigenous and colonial forms and structures. It approaches this study from the pre-colonial period on, rather than backwards as has been the case with previous scholarship. Topics include a British colonial officer who married a Mughal noblewoman and converted to Islam around the turn of the nineteenth century, the role gossip and taboo play in the formation of Indian family history, and an analysis of social relations in the penal colony on the Andaman Islands.

Author : Monika Böck,Aparna Rao
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1571819126

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Culture, Creation, and Procreation by Monika Böck,Aparna Rao Pdf

These 12 chapters discuss the constitution of kinship among different communities in South Asia and addressing the relationship between ideology and practice, cultural models, and individual strategies. Chapters center around three topics: community and person, gender and change, and shared knowledge and practice. The volume as a whole contributes to the on-going debate on models of well-being within kinship studies. Contributors include anthropologists from Europe, Asia, and the United States. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Govindan Unny
Publisher : Vikas Publishing House Private
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015032207949

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Kinship Systems in South and Southeast Asia by Govindan Unny Pdf

A comparative study of Nairs from Kerala, India, and Minangkabau (Indonesian people) from West Sumatra.

Author : David E. Ludden
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1999-10-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0521364248

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An Agrarian History of South Asia by David E. Ludden Pdf

Originally published in 1999, this book offers a comprehensive historical framework for understanding the regional diversity of agrarian South Asia.

Author : Peter Boomgaard,Dick Kooiman,Henk Schulte Nordholt
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004253995

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Linking Destinies by Peter Boomgaard,Dick Kooiman,Henk Schulte Nordholt Pdf

Trade flows, cities and kinship relations can all be seen as elements of complex networks. In this collection of essays, all of which deal with Asia, we argue that there are good reasons to envisage them as various dimensions of the same networks.

Author : Anna Aronovna Suvorova
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 019940867X

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Widows and Daughters by Anna Aronovna Suvorova Pdf

This book outlines the so called 'contemporary Asian matriarchate'. In the twentieth century, six women have held the office of prime minister in South Asia. The pioneers were Sirimavo Bandaranaike of Sri Lanka-the world's first female prime minister-and Indira Gandhi, who headed the government of India. They were followed by Benazir Bhutto, the Prime Minister of Pakistan, Sheikh Hasina Wajed and Begum Khaleda Zia, who held same position in Bangladesh, and Chandrika Kumaratunga, the Sri Lankan President. Why should countries so long associated with patriarchy and the subordination of women be the focus for so many politically prominent females? The analysts attribute it simply to inheritance as each of these women was a widow or daughter of a slain male national leader. Women have tended to move into top position of power under the most dramatic circumstances-as a result of military coups, attempted murder, and assassination. This book will try to unravel the question of how these six women have managed to take power and how they have been able to exploit to their benefit the traditions of sexuality, motherhood, and kinship in South Asia.

Author : Anthony Good
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 21 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Civilization, Dravidian
ISBN : 1900795051

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On the Non-existence of "Dravidian Kinship" by Anthony Good Pdf

Author : Rajat Ganguly
Publisher : Sage Publications (CA)
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Culture conflict
ISBN : 8170367301

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Kin State Intervention in Ethnic Conflicts by Rajat Ganguly Pdf

Kin State Intervention in Ethnic Conflicts analyses the role played by Kin States' in ethnosecessioist conflicts utilizing comparative case studies of secessionist movements in South Asia.

Author : Monica Janowski,Fiona Kerlogue
Publisher : NIAS Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9788791114939

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Kinship and Food in South East Asia by Monica Janowski,Fiona Kerlogue Pdf

There has been a growing acceptance that food has an important role in establishing and structuring social and kin relations in South East Asian societies. This study looks at a wide variety of groups in the region and demonstrates that within all of them the feeding relationship is fundamental to the establishment and the nature of relations within generations and between generations. Presenting material from ten societies in the region, the papers included in this volume argue that the feeding of foods, drink and meals based on the focal starch crop grown by these agricultural groups - rice in eight of the groups covered here, sago in one and cassava in one - is used to manipulate 'biological' kinship and to construct a 'kinship' particular to humans; which is nevertheless founded in a 'natural' process, the 'flow of life', blessings and potency between generations.

Author : O. W. Wolters
Publisher : SEAP Publications
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 0877277257

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History, Culture, and Region in Southeast Asian Perspectives by O. W. Wolters Pdf

A new edition of this classic study of mandala Southeast Asia. The revised book includes a substantial, retrospective postscript examining contemporary scholarship that has contributed to the understanding of Southeast Asian history since 1982.

Author : Jennifer L. Gaynor
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780877272311

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Intertidal History in Island Southeast Asia by Jennifer L. Gaynor Pdf

Intertidal History in Island Southeast Asia shows the vital part maritime Southeast Asians played in struggles against domination of the seventeenth-century spice trade by local and European rivals. Looking beyond the narrative of competing mercantile empires, it draws on European and Southeast Asian sources to illustrate Sama sea people's alliances and intermarriage with the sultanate of Makassar and the Bugis realm of Boné. Contrasting with later portrayals of the Sama as stateless pirates and sea gypsies, this history of shifting political and interethnic ties among the people of Sulawesi’s littorals and its land-based realms, along with their shared interests on distant coasts, exemplifies how regional maritime dynamics interacted with social and political worlds above the high-water mark.

Author : O. W. Wolters
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501732607

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History, Culture, and Region in Southeast Asian Perspectives by O. W. Wolters Pdf

A new edition of this classic study of mandala Southeast Asia. The revised book includes a substantial, retrospective postscript examining contemporary scholarship that has contributed to the understanding of Southeast Asian history since 1982.

Author : Madhav M. Deshpande,Peter Edwin Hook,Peter E. Hook
Publisher : U OF M CENTER FOR SOUTH ASIAN STUDIES
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1979-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780891480143

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Aryan and Non-Aryan in India by Madhav M. Deshpande,Peter Edwin Hook,Peter E. Hook Pdf

The history and mechanisms of the convergence of ancient Aryan and non-Aryan cultures has been a subject of continuing fascination in many fields of Indology. The contributions to Aryan and Non-Aryan in India are the fruit of a conference on that topic held in December 1976 at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, under the auspices of the Center for South and Southeast Asian Studies. The express object of the conference was to examine the latest findings from a variety of disciplines as they relate to the formation and integration of a unified Indian culture from many disparate cultural and ethnic elements.