Family and Kinship A Study of the Pandits of Rural Kashmir,9780195657852

Family and Kinship A Study of the Pandits of Rural Kashmir

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Edition: 2nd
ISBN13: 9780195657852
ISBN10: 0195657853
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2002-05-16
Publisher(s): Oxford University Press
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Summary

This is a new, enlarged edition of a pioneering and ethnographically rich account of the Hindu family. First published in 1965, the book describes a typical Kashmiri homeland and examines the composition of, and modes of recruitment to, the household. This second edition includes three new appendices, a revised list of references, and a new index.

Table of Contents

Foreword xiii
Preface to the Paperback edition xvii
Preface to the Second Edition xxiii
Preface to the First Edition xxx
Acknowledgements xxxi
Introduction: Problems And Methods
1(12)
I
Kinship Studies in India
1(3)
II
The Present Study
4(1)
Fieldwork
5(2)
Scope
7(6)
Kashmiri Pandits: History and Social Organization
13(13)
I
The Hindus of Kashmir
13(1)
Population
14(1)
Pandits Domiciled Outside Kashmir
15(1)
Kashmiri Brahmans under Early Muslim Rule
16(2)
Later History
18(1)
II
Pandit Subcastes
19(2)
Status and Territorial Distinctions among the `Karkun'
21(2)
Kinship and Marriage among the Pandits
23(3)
Utrassu-Umanagri
26(13)
I
The Villages of Kashmir
26(2)
Utrassu-Umanagri: Location and Physical Features
28(2)
Utrassu-Umanagri: The Settlement Pattern
30(2)
Utrassu-Umanagri: Legend and History
32(2)
II
The Villagers
34(1)
The Muslims
34(1)
The Pandits
35(4)
The Homestead and the Household
39(50)
I
The Homestead
39(1)
Architecture of the Homestead
40(4)
Construction of the House
44(2)
Distinguishing Features of the Pandit House
46(1)
What is a House?
47(1)
II
The Household in Relation to the House
48(1)
Numerical Size and Genealogical Composition of the Household
49(2)
A Dynamic Approach to the Study of Households
51(3)
General Form of the Developmental Cycle of the Household
54(3)
Phases of Development in the Households of Utrassu-Umanagri
57(5)
The Ideal Household
62(2)
Recruitment to the Household: (1) Birth And Adoption
I
Birth
64(1)
Physical, Supernatural and Cultural Factors in Childbirth
64(3)
Attitude toward Sons and Daughters
67(2)
Rituals and Ceremonies connected with Childbirth
69(3)
II
Adoption
72(1)
Rules of Adoption
73(2)
Consequences of Adoption
75(1)
III
The Parent-Child Relationship
76(1)
Genetic and Moral Aspects
76(2)
The Nexus of Religious Rites
78(2)
Ritual Initiation of Boys
80(2)
Economic Rights and Obligations
82(2)
Grandparents Parents and Children in Domestic Life
84(5)
Recruitment to the Household: (2) Marriage and Incorporation
89(37)
I
Importance and Nature of Marriage
89(1)
Selection of Spouses: Prescriptions and Prohibitions
90(5)
Selection of Spouses: Preferences
95(2)
Village Exogamy
97(2)
Negotiations for Marriage
99(1)
Types of Marriage
100(4)
`Promise-Giving' and Betrothal Ceremonies
104(1)
The Marriage Ritual
105(2)
Secondary Marriage and Remarriage
107(1)
II
Structural Consequences of Marriage
108(4)
The Woman-Giving Household
112(1)
The Pandit Woman in her Conjugal Household
113(5)
The Husband-Wife Relationship
118(3)
A Man and His Affines
121(1)
Relations between Affinally Related Households
122(2)
III
Incorporation
124(2)
The Economic Aspect of the Household
126(18)
I
Traditional Sources of Household Income
126(2)
Recent Changes in the Pattern of Economic Pursuits
128(3)
Present-day Sources of Household Income
131(2)
Collective and Individual Incomes
133(2)
Household Income, Patterns of Spending, and Levels of Living
135(2)
II
Joint Ownership of Property
137(4)
Rights of Inheritance
141(3)
Partition of the Household
144(15)
Partition in Relation to Household Structure
145(2)
Partition: Structural Conditions
147(1)
Partition: Causes
148(5)
A Case History
153(2)
The Process of Partition
155(2)
Reunion of Households
157(2)
The Family and the Patrilineage
159(24)
I
The Family
159(1)
The Compound and the Neighbourhood
160(8)
Dispersed `Kotamb'
168(2)
Inter-Household Relations within the `Kotamb'
170(6)
Hostility between Cousins
176(3)
II
The Patrilineage
179(4)
The Wider Kinship Structure: Non-Agnatic Kin
183(9)
Bilateral Filiation
183(1)
The `Matamal'
184(3)
Spouse's `Matamal'
187(1)
Mother's Siblings
188(2)
`Wora-Matamal'
190(1)
Parental `Matamal'
191(1)
Non-agnatic Kinship
191(1)
Household and the Family Among the Pandits of The Rural Kashmir: Concluding Review
192(9)
Appendix I STRUCTURAL IMPLICATIONS OF MARRIAGE: WIFE-GIVERS AND WIFE-TAKERS 201(29)
The Problem
201(2)
Women: Wives and Mothers
203(3)
Ashnav: Affines and Non-agnatic Cognates
206(4)
Mother's Brother and Father's Sister's Husband
210(6)
Affinal Gifts: Wife-givers and Wife-takers
216(12)
Concluding Remarks
228(2)
Appendix II THE IDEOLOGY OF THE HOUSEHOLDER 230(28)
Introductory
230(3)
Sociocultural Identity; `Bhattil' and `Garhasthya'
233(1)
Selfhood and Personhood
233(2)
External Signs of Pandit Identity
235(1)
Pandit Identity: Self ascription
236(1)
Parenthood: Biology and Morality
237(5)
`Bhattil': Traditional Purposes of Life
242(4)
`Bhattil': Traditional Procedures
246(2)
Alternative Orientations
248(1)
Bhakti
249(2)
Shakti
251(1)
Virakti
252(1)
Concluding Remarks
253(1)
Children and Women
254(2)
The Man-in-the-world
256(2)
Appendix III THE LANGUAGE OF KINSHIP: (1) KINSHIP TERMINOLOGY 258(8)
Terms of Reference
258(1)
Ego's Generation
258(2)
First Ascending Generation
260(1)
Second and Third Ascending Generations
260(1)
First and Second Descending Generations
261(1)
Ego's Affines
261(1)
Terms of Address
262(1)
Conclusion
263(3)
Appendix IV THE LANGUAGE OF KINSHIP: (2) PROVERBS 266(4)
Birth and Childhood
266(1)
Marriage
267(1)
Interpersonal Relations between Kin and Affines
267(3)
Appendix V THE `CONVOY': A NOTE ON FIVE INFORMANTS 270(4)
Sarwanand Pandit
270(1)
Bishambar Nath Koul
271(1)
Shambhu Nath Tikoo
272(1)
Vasadev Pandit
272(1)
Srikanth Pandit
272(2)
Appendix VI ON-LIVING INTIMATELY WITH STRANGERS 274(23)
Ethnographers and Natives
276(2)
Beliefs and Rituals
278(3)
The Private and the Public
281(3)
Kinsfolk and Strangers
284(4)
Conclusion-Outsiders and Insiders
288(9)
Glossary 297(10)
References 307(10)
Index 317

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