The householder's world : purity, power, and dominance in a Nepali village
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The householder's world : purity, power, and dominance in a Nepali village
（Oxford India paperbacks）
Oxford University Press, 2008
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"First published 1995. Oxford India paperbacks 2008"--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references (p. [286]-295) and indexes
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Description
This book is an important contribution not only to Nepalese and South Asian studies but also to the theory and method of constructing ethnographic accounts. Through a detailed study of a multicaste village in a southern district of the Kathmandu Valley, Gray proposes a new approach to the anthropological analysis of societies such as Nepal, with multiple layers of social life. The narrative structure of the account starts with the household and places ethnographic priority on it. 'spiralling outwards' to the wider society. The author describes how as householders villagers construct social relations both within and between domestic groups and how these relations inflect their understanding of asymmetry and its various dimensions, such as purity, power and dominance in wider social contexts.
Table of Contents
- PREFACE
- MAPS, FIGURES & TABLES
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Ontology and the Cultural Construction of the Domestic Domain
- 3. The Dharma of the Household
- 4. Begetting Children and Domestic Kinship
- 5. The Domestic Enterprise: Community Responsibility and the Political Economy of the Household
- 6. Silwal Brotherhood: Kholagaun Hamlet
- 7. Banaspati Village: Purity, Dependency and Power
- 8. Conclusion: Retrospect and Prospect
- APPENDIX: THE ORIGINS OF THE SILWALS
- GLOSSARY
- REFERENCES CITED
- INDEX
- AUTHOR INDEX
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