The problems of life in Gopalpur are understandable. From the Western point of view, the ways in which they are solved seem strange. How do wrestling matches between young men from different villages in the Gopalpur area help make social and economic relations between these villages smoother? Why is the preferred marital partner one's sister's daughter or cross cousin? What useful purpose can the saltmakers' cast serve when saltmakers make no salt? How are the strong forces making for competition and conflict in Gopalpur contained and controlled, so that crucial areas of cooperation are not destroyed? These are some of the many questions answered in this case study that make it fascinating reading.

Gopalpur: A South Indian Village (Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology)

Politics & Social Sciences

Beals, Alan R.

Anthropology

Holt, Rinehart & Winston, Incorporated

Culture in Process

Social Sciences

Harcourt School

Gopalpur; A South Indian Village.

Harcourt College Pub.

Culture in process

HOLT. RINEHART AND WINSTON

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 Indian villagers represents a subtle and complicated adaptation to complex and variable environmental circumstances. It now faces the challenge of adjusting to modernization.After a fascinating description of the traditional South Indian worldview, Alan R. Beals describes the settlement patterns and social structures that characterize village life, the agricultural technology and ecology, and the techniques of population regulation that have traditionally operated to maintain appropriate man-to-land ratios. He then explains the relationships among villages, including marriage and economic exchanges, and the omnipresent influence of hierarchies of caste and social ranking.Over the past 2,000 years, South Indian civilization has undergone constant change and modification. Empires have risen and fallen, famine and plague have swept the land, and cities have been built and forgotten. But through all these years of change, the traditional South Indian village has maintained its basic character, adjusting to a variety of environments and countless conquests, yet always adhering to a single basic pattern of life. Village Life in South India, originally published in 1974, provides the reader not only with a still-valid description of a particular and distinctive way of life, but also with an explanation of how life is explained in ecological theory.

Village life in South India: cultural design and environmental variation (Worlds of man)

History

Asia

Aldine Pub. Co.

Book by Beals, Alan R., Siegel, Bernard

Divisiveness and Social Conflict: Anthropological Approach

Stanford University Press

Book by Siegel, Bernard J., Beals, Alan R., Tyler, Stephen A.

Annual Review of Anthropology: 1984

Tyler, Stephen A.

Siegel, Bernard J.

Annual Reviews

Book by Siegel, Bernard J., Beals, Alan R.

Annual Review of Anthropology: 1985

Annual Review of Anthropology: 1988

Book by Siegel, Bernard J., Beals, Alan R.

Annual Review of Anthropology: 1989

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