Encyclopedia of World Cultures Volume III - South Asia - G pot
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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Encyclopedia of World Cultures Volume III - South Asia - Overview pot
... 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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Encyclopedia of World Cultures Volume III - South Asia - B potx
... 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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Encyclopedia of World Cultures Volume III - South Asia - M potx
... 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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Encyclopedia of World Cultures Volume III - South Asia - P potx
... 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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Encyclopedia of World Cultures Volume III - South Asia - A doc
... 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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Encyclopedia of World Cultures Volume III - South Asia - C ppt
... 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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Encyclopedia of World Cultures Volume III - South Asia - D,E,F doc
... 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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Encyclopedia of World Cultures Volume III - South Asia - H pps
... 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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Encyclopedia of World Cultures Volume III - South Asia - I ppt
... 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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