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By Jack Goody

ISBN-10: 0521450489

ISBN-13: 9780521450485

Jack Goody's new ebook explores the heritage of social anthropology as an emergent self-discipline within the interwar years. It specializes in key practitioners, equivalent to Malinowski and Fortes, and explores how a ways ideological ways followed via social anthropologists have been outlined through the associations during which they constructed, relatively according to key problems with the time: colonialism, anti-Semitism and communism. Goody makes a speciality of Britain and Africa, and attracts on his personal wide-ranging own fieldwork adventure.

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Allaehcd to Melur-Sripuram. These are not all in one place, but in t hree differen t plnces separated from each other by distances of half a mile to a mile. Only one of the six cJreris is in Sripuram proper. in 36 T HE VILLAGE: PHYS ICAL STRUcrURE the sense that it is physically contiguous to the Non-B rahmin scttlement there. The other settlements are in the midst of paddy fields, separated clearly from the main villages to which they are attached. The cheris, more often than not, are situated in a manner which emphasizes their social exclusion from the village, rather than their social identity with it.

TIle resistan<;e to Non-Urnhmins has, in fact, far deeper roots. Their entry into Ihe (lgraharalll would upset a pattern of life which has been established over centuries. To the Brahmins such a contingency bears the appearance of a threat to their tradition and their cultural heritage. For them the agrafraf(/m is no t only a physical unit; it is a community and a way of life. GE: PHYSICAL STRUCTURE While, on the one hand, the agraharam is closed to NonBrahmins from the village or the region, it is, on the other hand, open to Brahmins from any part of the country.

Associated specifically with one or another group of cas tes. No temple has the same mea ning or serves the same purpo~e for all the ca~tcs in the village. The Vishnu willple ministers to the needs of the (Igralwram . T o a great ex tent th e religious Iife of the Brahm; IlS revolves around it. It has to be remembered that the mnjority of Brahmins in Sripuram arc ShTi Vaishnn\'us and th,ll the Smartha Brahmins also generall y worship Vishn u. Nlln-Ilruhmins do not come to lIn: Vishnu temple. except for a few menials who carry the deity during processions.

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