Focusing on the householder in Hindu society, this Omnibus brings together distinguished sociologist T.N. Madan's writings on the theme. With a new Preface, Prologue, Epilogue, and three new appendices, the omnibus sheds light on life and society of Pandits in the Kashmir Valley. INDICE: II. Non-renunciation: Themes and Interpretations of Hindu Culture Preface; Acknowledgements; A Note on Transliteration; Introduction: Intimations of the Good Life; Preface; Prologue: The Householder Tradition in Hindu Society; I. Family and Kinship: A Study of the Pandits of Rural Kashmir, SecondEnlarged Edition; 1.: Introduction: Problems and Methods; 2.: Kashmiri Pandits: History and Social Organization; 3.: Utrassu-Umanagri; 4.: The Homestead and the Household; 5.: Recruitment to the Household: (1) Birth and Adoption; 6.:Recruitment to the Household (2): Marriage and Incorporation; 7.: The Economic Aspect of the Household; 9.: The Family and the Patrilineage; 10.: The WiderKinship Structure: Non-Agnatic Kin; 11.: Household and the Family among the Pandits of Rural Kashmir: Concluding Review; Appendix I Structural Implicationsof Marriage: Wife-givers and Wife-takers; Appendix II The Ideology of the Householder; Appendix III The Language of Kinship: (1) Kinship Terminology; Appendix IV The Language of Kinship (2): Proverbs; Appendix V The 'Convoy': A Note on Five Informants; Appendix VI On Living Intimately with Strangers; Glossary;References; Index; II. Non-renunciation: Themes and Interpretations of Hindu Culture Preface; 1.: Domesticity and Detachment; 2.: Auspiciousness and Purity; 3.: Asceticism and Eroticism; 4.: The Desired and the Good; 5.: Living and Dying; Epilogue: The Quest for Hinduism; Appendix A Note on the Epigraphs; References; Index; Epilogue Growing up in a Kashmiri Pandit Household; Appendix I is the Brahmanic Gotra a Grouping of Kin?; Appendix II The Hindu Family and Development; Appendix III Auspiciousness and Purity: Some Reconsiderations; Supplementary Index
- ISBN: 978-0-19-806940-9
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 688
- Fecha Publicación: 13/01/2011
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés