| Included Work | Beck, Brenda E. F. Peasant society in Konku. |
| Included Work | Béteille, André. Caste, class, and power. |
| Included Work | Béteille, André. Tribulations of fieldwork. |
| Included Work | Daniel, Sheryl B. Marriage in Tamil culture. |
| Included Work | Djurfeldt, Göran, 1945- Pills against poverty. |
| Included Work | Lindberg, Staffan, 1943- |
| Included Work | Gough, Kathleen, 1925-1990 Caste in a Tanjore village. |
| Included Work | Gough, Kathleen, 1925-1990 Brahman kinship in a Tamil village. |
| Included Work | Haswell, Margaret, 1917- Economics of development in village India. |
| Included Work | Maloney, Clarence. Culture summary, Tamil. |
| Included Work | Mencher, Joan P., 1930- Agriculture and social structure in Tamil Nadu. |
| Included Work | Mencher, Joan P., 1930- Viewing hierarchy from the bottom up. |
| Included Work | Natarajan, Balasubrahmanya, 1910- Gangaikondan. |
| Included Work | Pandian, Jacob. Dravidianization. |
| Included Work | Reynolds, Holly Baker. Auspicious married woman. |
| Included Work | Sivertsen, Dagfinn. When caste barriers fall. |
| Included Work | Thirumalai, S. Vadamalaipuram. |
| Included Work | Thirumalai, S. Palakkurichi. |
| Included Work | Thomas, P. J. (Parakunnel Joseph), 1893-1965 Some south Indian villages. |
| Included Work | Ramakrishnan, K. C. |
| Included Work | Trawick, Margaret On the meaning of sakti to women in Tamil Nadu. |
| Included Work | Veeraraghavan, A. K. Eruvellipet. |
| Included Work | Veeraraghavan, A. K. Dusi. |
| Included Work | Wadley, Susan Snow, 1943- Paradoxical powers of Tamil women. |
| Included Work | Zvelebil, Kamil Smile of Murugan on Tamil literature of South India. |
| Other author/creator | Human Relations Area Files, inc. |
| Series |
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| Contents |
Peasant society in Konku / Brenda E. F. Beck -- Caste, class, and power / André Marie Béteille -- Tribulations of fieldwork / André Béteille -- Marriage in Tamil culture / Sheryl B. Daniel -- Pills against poverty / Goran Djurfeldt and Staffan Lindberg -- On the meaning of sakti to women in Tamil Nadu / Margaret Egnor -- Caste in a Tanjore village ; Brahman kinship in a Tamil village / E. Kathleen Gough -- Economics of development in village India / M. R. Haswell ; foreword by Colin Clark -- Dravidianization / Ebenezer Titus Jacob-Pandian -- Culture summary, Tamil / Clarence Maloney -- Agriculture and social structure in Tamil Nadu ; Viewing hierarchy from the bottom up / Joan P. Mencher -- Gangaikondan / B. Natarajan -- Auspicious married woman / Holly Baker Reynolds -- When caste barriers fall / Dagfinn Sivertsen -- Vadamalaipuram ; Palakkurichi / S. Thirumalai -- Some south Indian villages / edited by P. J. Thomas and K. C. Ramakrishnan -- Notes on love in a Tamil family / Margaret Trawick -- Eruvellipet ; Dusi / A. K. Veeraraghavan -- Paradoxical powers of Tamil women / Susan S. Wadley -- Smile of Murugan on Tamil literature of South India / Kamil V. Zvelebil. |
| Abstract |
This collection of 23 documents about Indian Tamils, all in English, deal primarily with specific village surveys or regional studies in Tamil Nadu. No single document in the collection gives a general overview of all aspects of Tamil ethnography. Information regarding the caste and class organization of the Tamil is provided by Béteille, Sivetsen, Gough, Beck, and Mencher. Tamil economics is covered by Haswell and in the six south Indian village economic studies presented in Thomas, Ramakrishnan, Thirumalai, Natarajan, and Veeraraghaven. Also discussed are the status and powers of women in Tamil society, health and health policies in the village of Thaiyur, and social change in the village of Pulicat. The Tamil homeland is in southwestern India and is roughly equivalent to the modern state of Tamil Nadu. The Tamil comprise the vast majority of the population of Tamil Nadu and a good number of Indian Tamil also live in the small territory of Pondicherry, around the city of Bangalore, and elsewhere in India. The Tamil speak Tamil, a Dravidian language. Within villages, society is ordered by a hierarchy of castes. |
| General note | Title from Web page (viewed Apr. 6, 2010). |
| General note | This portion of eHRAF world cultures was last updated in 2009 and is a revision and update of the microfiche file. |
