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Prediction of Death Among the Kanya- Kubja Brahmans : a Study of Predictive Narratives:
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This article is published in Contributions to Indian Sociology.The article was published on 1967-01-01. It has received 8 citations till now.read more
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Race and the culture of anthropology
TL;DR: The number of panels on "multiculturalism" and "cultural studies" at the AAA's annual meetings has increased significantly as discussed by the authors and many anthropologists believe that the discipline has been in the vanguard of debates on racism and multiculturalism, that it stands for precisely those issues raised in the "culture wars": the equal valuation of all cultures.
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Gendered states: Rethinking culture as a site of South Asian human rights work
TL;DR: The authors explored recent critiques in feminist theory to examine how gender-based asylum cases and human rights reporting on South Asia rely upon the most static and patriarchal understandings of culture to establish a basis for intervention or advocacy.
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Ancient Banyan: an Inquiry into the Meaning of ‘Hinduness’
TL;DR: In this article, the authors define a propriete distinctive of l'hindouite (hindutā) in termses d'une approche basee sur un systeme recentre par des polarites equilibrantes and interactives (systeme appele polycentrisme).
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On trusting ethnography: serendipity and the reflexive return to the fields of Gujarat
Alice Tilche,Edward Simpson +1 more
TL;DR: The authors draw on David Pocock's fieldwork of the 1950s in central Gujarat, India, as a comparative resource to think about social change and anthropological knowledge, and demonstrate that the personal attributes of the anthropologist might influence the production of ethnographic research less than is generally assumed.
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For a Sociology of India
TL;DR: This article found that studies on Hindus and their religious tradition are several times more than the studies on all the non-Hindus taken together, despite the fact that each of these groups would seem to claim attention in its own right on account of its influence upon Hinduism and its significance for constructing a complete picture of Indian social life in its diversity as well as unity.
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Language: An Introduction to the Study of Speech
TL;DR: The author examines how languages influence each other and investigates the role of language, race, and culture in the development of language and literature.
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The Kānya-Kubja Brahmins and Their Caste Organization
TL;DR: In this paper, Majumdar et al. presented a systematic study of the Brahmins' social organization in the Rig-Veda and found that the concept of blood purity has remained the dominant cultural interest for and around which the complex corpus of whole of the social living oriented itself.