About the Book
Eight villages in seven different linguistic areas and five provinces of India are here illuminated by detailed analyses of caste, community, structure, personality, religion, world view, and the current forces of social change. As component units within a complex, ancient, and today newly important civilization, Indian villages offer a challenging field for study of peasant culture and society.
Contents
• The Social System of a Mysore Village
M.N. Srinivas
• The Social Structure of a Tanjore Village
E. Kathleen Gough
• The Changing Status of a Depressed Caste
Bernard S. Cohn
• Interplay among Factors of Change in a Mysore Village
Alan R. Beals
• Notes on an Approach to a Study of Personality
Formation in a Hindu Village in Gujarat
Gitel P. Steed
• Peasant Culture in India and Mexico: A Comparative Analysis
Oscar Lewis
• Little Communities in an Indigenous Civilization
McKim Marriott
• The World and the World View of the Kota
David G. Mandelbaum
About the Author / Editor
McKim Marriott, PhD in Anthropology (Chicago, 1955), is Professor at the Department of Anthropology in Social Sciences Collegiate Division of the University of Chicago. He has done field work in Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra; and authored varied studies on rural social organization and change. He is concerned with formulating and simulating indigenous sociologies and psychologies in India, Japan, and other countries.
