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Encyclopedia of World Cultures Volume III - South Asia - G pot
... as
a
more
generalized
organizing
principle
in
Gurung
society.
Descent
in
terms
of
rights
to
lineage
re-
sources
and
clan
affiliation
is
patrilineal,
but
descent
through
the
mother's
line
influences
marriage
possibilities
and
pro-
hibitions.
Kinship
Terminology.
The
Gurungs
have
a
wide
array
of
kin
terms,
which
are
highly
differentiated
and
precise.
Birth
order
and
relative
age
are
im...
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Contents
Project
Staff
vi
Contributors
vii
Preface
xiii
Introduction
xix
Maps
1.
South
Asia
xxviii
2.
Cultural
Regions
of
South
Asia
xxix
3.
Major
Languages
of
South
Asia
xxx
4.
Dominant
Religious
Groups
of
South
Asia
xxxi
5.
Cultural
Groups
of
South
Asia
xxxii
Cultures
of
South
Asia
1
Appendix:
Additional
Castes,
Caste
Clusters,
and
Tribes
309
Bibliograph...
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... the
Vaisnava-Sahajiyd
Cult
of
Bengal.
Chi-
cago:
University
of
Chicago
Press.
McDaniel,
June
(1989).
The
Madness
of
the
Saints:
Ecstatic
Religion
in
Bengal.
Chicago:
University
of
Chicago
Press.
Singer,
Milton,
ed.
(1971).
Krishna:
Myths,
Rites,
and
Atti-
tudes.
Chicago:
University
of
Chicago
Press.
JUNE
McDANIEL
Bhil
ETHNONYMS:
none
Orientation
Identification.
The
Bhils
are
the
thi...
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... or
4
years.
When
a
girl
is
about
3,
her
parents
ceremoniously
give
her
a
new
shirt,
a
rite
of
passage
corresponding
to
the
first
haircutting
of
a
4-
or
5-year-old
boy.
Both
ceremonies
honor
the
child
and
impress
him
or
her
with
the
parents'
good
wishes
for
the
future.
From
the
age
of
about
8
the
child,
Mauritian
171
percent
are
Hindus
from
northern
India;
16
percent
are
Mus-
li...
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... are
landowning
farmers
who
do
all
of
the
work
required
to
grow
and
process
crops
and
to
husband
domestic
animals.
The
low
castes
are
their
hereditary
landless
servants.
The
latter
are
defined
as
artisans,
as
is
suggested
by
their
derogatory-descriptive
appel-
lation,
shilpkar
(literally,
'handworker").
They
include,
in
ad-
dition
to
the
artisan
specialties
described
above,
service...
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Thus,
"Abor"
suggests
one
who
does
not
submit
allegiance
(i.e.,
one
who
is
hostile,
barbarous,
or
savage).
The
alternative
view
connects
the
word
with
Abo,
the
primordial
man
in
Abor
mythology.
The
final
-r
is
taken
to
be
similar
to
final
-rr
in
tribal
designations
such
as
Aorr,
Simirr,
and
Yim-
chungrr,
which
means
"man."
In
the
1960s,
the
Abor
began
calling
themselves
A...
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... square
kilometer.
There
are
few
towns
of
any
size.
The
largest
is
Aizawl,
capital
of
Mizoram
State,
with
a
population
exceeding
100,000.
Owing
to
the
absence
of
flat
lands
and
ready
communications
with
major
plains
areas
in
India
and
Myanmar
(Burma),
the
number
of
non-
Chin
peoples
living
in
the
region
is
negligible.
Linguistic
Affiliation.
The
Chin
languages
belong
to
the
Kuki-Chin
S...
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... old
culture
is
comprised
of
three
main
layers:
the
Tamil-Malayalam
substratum
with
its
many
subtle
roots;
old
Sinhala
culture
and
language,
which
is
the
dominant
element;
and
the
phase
of
Arabic
in-
fluence.
But
the
Maldives
were
touched
by
every
cultural
wind
that
passed
over
the
Indian
Ocean.
Since
independence
there
has
again
been
influence
from
Sri
Lanka,
through
its
teachers
brought...
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... found
as
household
servants
and
cooks,
and
in
some
cities
in
India
they
run
public
bathhouses.
Hijras
complain
that
in
contemporary
India
their
opportunity
to
earn
a
living
by
the
respectable
means
of
performing
at
marriages
and
births
has
declined,
due
to
smaller
families,
less
elaborate
life-cycle
ceremonies,
and
a
general
decline
in
the
respect
for
traditional
ritual
specialists.
Hijras...
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... per-
form
many
agricultural
tasks.
Males
typically
do
the
sowing,
and
women
often
do
the
most
boring
of
tasks
such
as
weed-
ing,
reaping,
and
the
carrying
of
loads
of
harvested
garden
produce
or
grain.
Both
males
and
females
are
hired
for
a
host
of
laboring
tasks.
Because
infant
care
thus
becomes
a
prob-
lem,
it
is
not
unusual
for
women
to
take
their
infants
to
work-
places.
Older
chi...
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