The Armenian Godfather Complex

Chapters in this book

1. I-VI I
2. Foreword VII
3. List of Tables XV
4. List of Diagrams XVII
5. David Mandelbaum and the Rise of South Asian Studies: A Reminiscence 1
6. David G. Mandelbaum: Fifty Years of Scholarship, 1936-1986 9
7. I Family, Kinship and Personhood
8. Authority, Power and Autonomy in the Life Cycle of the North Indian Woman 23
9. Living the Levirate: the Mating of an Untouchable Chuhra Widow 45
10. Life History: Nonconformity and the Syntax of Metaexperience 69
11. The Psychodynamics of Nayar Family Life: the Matrilineal Puzzle Re-examined 87
12. The Armenian Godfather Complex 119
13. Of Siblings and Cousins: Some Notes on Toda Kinship in the Light of Recent Writings 135
14. II Old Tribes and New
15. Single Persons and Social Cohesion in a Hunter-Gatherer Society 151
16. Death Comes to an American Indian Tribe 167
17. The Lahushi Bakio: Birth of a New THbe 177
18. IIΙ Culture Areas and Cultural themes
19. Transcendental and Folk Aspects of Judaism 201
20. Houses with Centered Courtyards in Kerala and Elsewhere in India 215
21. The Right Hand is the 'Eating Hand': an Indian Areal Linguistic Inqui ry 263
22. Yankee City in Renaissance 275
23. IV Investigating Health and Development
24. The Impact of Social and Economic Development on Mortality: a Comparative Study of Kerala and West Bengal 305
25. The Chipko Movement in the Indian Himalayas 345
26. Urbanization and Social Change Concepts and Techniques 369
27. Investigating Back Pain: the Implications of Two Village Studies in South Asia 385
28. Western Economists in South Asia: Some Afterthoughts on an Experience 397
29. Quarry and Field: Sources of Continuity and Change in a Rajasthani Village 419
30. "Mental" in "Southie": Individual, Family and Community Responses to Psychosis in South Boston 439
31. V Caste in India
32. Early Evidence for Caste in South India 467
33. Untouchability, the Untouchables and Social Change in Gujarat 493
34. The Denial of Caste in Modern Urban Parlance 507
35. The Caste System and its Future 525
36. VI Stratification and Ethnicity
37. Ethnic Group Distribution and Political Influence in South India 541
38. Ethnicity in Peninsular Malaysia: the Idiom of Communalism, Confrontation and Cooperation 559
39. Social Stratification in the United States 573
40. Class, Caste and Caste-ism 601
41. VII The Integration of Civilizations
42. Pluralism, Pilgrimage and National Unity in Sri Lanka 619
43. Tourism and English National Identity: Corkaguiney and the Nilgiris 633
44. Germany and Hitler's Anti-Semitism 653
45. Caste and the Construction of Other-Worldly Civilizations 681
46. Biographical Notes 699
47. Index 705