Culture and Power: Legend, Ritual, Bazaar and Rebellion in a Bengali Society - Rilegato

Ostor, Akos

 
9780803994799: Culture and Power: Legend, Ritual, Bazaar and Rebellion in a Bengali Society

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Akos Ostor′s work is an interpretive study of cultural forms and meaning in the social relations of everyday life in Vishnupur, India. Culture and Power considers basic issues of anthropology, problems in the study of social categories and concepts and the social reality, the impact of the West on India.

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Recensione

'The utility of understanding Indian society from the perspective of cultural anthropology of indigenous nature has been very properly stressed...This book will appeal to researchers, scholars and students of anthropology, sociology and history.' -- Social Change

Contenuti

Itihasa
Legend and History Purana, Jatra, Puja
Myth, Theater, Ritual Bazaar
Merchants and Trade Andolan
Rebellion and Transformation General Implications

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