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Great Tradition, Little Tradition: the cultural traditions of a Bengal town
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This article is published in Contributions to Indian Sociology.The article was published on 1977-01-01. It has received 4 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: BENGAL.read more
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Introduction: Reclaiming Small Towns
Marie-Hélène Zérah,Eric Denis +1 more
TL;DR: The Subaltern Urbanization Research project as mentioned in this paper defines the notion of subaltern urbanisation and argues in favour of reclaiming research on small towns and argues for developing a multidisciplinary dialogue between large-scale analysis of urbanization and in-depth scrutiny of localised cases.
Selected Readings on Small Town Dynamics in India
Bhuvaneswari Raman,Mythri Prasad-Aleyamma,Rémi de Bercegol,Eric Denis,Eric Denis,Marie-Hélène Zérah,Marie-Hélène Zérah +6 more
TL;DR: In this article, a review of the state of knowledge related to small urbanised settlements is presented, highlighting the importance of the resilience of an urban system comprising a large number of small towns and the diversity of these settlements in terms of their economic base and their social structure.
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Anthropological Models of Cultural Interaction and the Study of Religious Process
TL;DR: The authors argue that despite criticism, these models, with necessary qualifications, can capture the complexities of the process of religious transformation in India and use Puranic texts of early medieval Bengal to illustrate their argument.
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Dialectic of Religion and Tradition: Investigating Remote Indigenous Communities Belief in Riau, Indonesia
TL;DR: In this article , a qualitative approach was used to answer research questions related to (1) the relationship between religion and tradition in the Akit Tribe community and (2) to explain why this tradition is maintained.
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