Family and kinship : a study of the pandits of rural Kashmir

By:

Madan, T.N

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Delhi; Oxford University Press; 1989Edition: 2nd edDescription: 325pSubject(s):

Family India Jammu and Kashmir

DDC classification:

306.83 MAD 2nd ed.

Summary: Soon after its publication in 1965, this book earned recognition in anthropological and sociological circles as a pioneering and ethnographically rich account of the Hindu family-indeed it has since become a classic. It has been widely cited and discussed, and used as a text in courses on kinship. It was a source book for David Mandelbaum's monumental Society in India (1972), and bracketed with D. M. Schneider's American Kinship (1968) as an outstanding monographic study of kinship (Encyclopaedia Britannica, 15th edn.). Beginning with introductory chapters on the Pandits of Kashmir and the village where he lived, the author describes a typical Kashmiri Pandit homestead and examines the composition of, and modes of recruitment to, the household. The economic aspects and partition of the household, its place within an extended family, and extra-familial kinship are also discussed. The present edition contains considerable new material and discussion in three appendices dealing with the structural implications of marriage, the ideology of the householder, and the anthropological study of one's own society. In an illuminating foreword, Professor J. A. Barnes writes: 'this is no arid structural analysis, for always we have before us real families.... Indeed, like any good analysis of social life anywhere, Dr Madan's study adds to our understanding of social behaviour in general, without restriction on region and epoch.'

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Soon after its publication in 1965, this book earned recognition in anthropological and sociological circles as a pioneering and ethnographically rich account of the Hindu family-indeed it has since become a classic. It has been widely cited and discussed, and used as a text in courses on kinship. It was a source book for David Mandelbaum's monumental Society in India (1972), and bracketed with D. M. Schneider's American Kinship (1968) as an outstanding monographic study of kinship (Encyclopaedia Britannica, 15th edn.).

Beginning with introductory chapters on the Pandits of Kashmir and the village where he lived, the author describes a typical Kashmiri Pandit homestead and examines the composition of, and modes of recruitment to, the household. The economic aspects and partition of the household, its place within an extended family, and extra-familial kinship are also discussed. The present edition contains considerable new material and discussion in three appendices dealing with the structural implications of marriage, the ideology of the householder, and the anthropological study of one's own society.

In an illuminating foreword, Professor J. A. Barnes writes: 'this is no arid structural analysis, for always we have before us real families.... Indeed, like any good analysis of social life anywhere, Dr Madan's study adds to our understanding of social behaviour in general, without restriction on region and epoch.'

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