1st Edition
Village Life in South India Cultural Design and Environmental Variation
By Alan R. Beals
Copyright 1974
207 Pages
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Routledge
208 Pages
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Routledge
189 Pages
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Routledge
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The traditional South Indian village pictures the entire universe as an entity in which all living things and human beings play a necessary and effective role. The stability of this worldview is based on a close relationship among human beings, grain crops, and cattle, which has permitted the continuous exploitation of agricultural lands over several centuries. Taken as a whole, the life of South... Read more
1: The South Indian World; 2: Village Plans and Structures; 3: Agricultural Technology; 4: Agricultural Ecology; 5: Population Regulation; 6: Intervillage Relationships: Jati and Marriage; 7: Intervillage Relationships: Economic Exchange; 8: The Government and the Village; 9: Religious Rituals and Institutions; 10: Modernization: The New Ecology; 11: The Seamless Web
Biography
Alan R. Beals
