Community, self and identity / [edited by] Bhabagrahi Misra [and] James Preston.
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Berlin ; New York :
De Gruyter Mouton,
2011.
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| Series: | World anthropology.
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- General Editor's Preface
- Introduction
- SECTION ONE Community in South Asian Cultures
- Gods, Kings, and the Caste System in India
- Commercial Economy of an Urban Temple in India: A Shift from Inheritance to Consignment Rights
- The Indian Caste Community as a Social System
- Social Cohesion and Reciprocation in a Tibetan Community in Nepal
- SECTION TWO Cultures of the Soviet Union
- Interaction of Cultures Among Peoples of the USSR
- Development of Traditional Aspects of National Culture in the Soviet Central Asian Republics
- SECTION THREE Community and World Judaism
- The Jews as an Ethnic Group in the Americas During the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
- Ancestor Memorialism: A Comparison of Jews and Japanese
- Some Functional and Structural Aspects of Family Life in a Communal Society: The Financial Sector of the Kibbutz Family
- Jewish Communities as Cultural Units
- SECTION FOUR Communal Society in America
- Eschatological Living: Religious Experience in the Shaker Community
- Religious Orientation of the Communal Counter-Culture: God, Nature, and Mysticism in Contemporary Society
- Rituals of Community in an American Religious Youth Group Meeting
- The Country Place: An Intentional, Therapeutic Community
- Ethnography of Religious Factors in a Politically Oriented Communal Group of New England
- Aspects of Personality in a Communal Society
- Communitarian Experiments and the Self
- Biographical Notes
- Index of Names
- Index of Subjects.