General Editor's Preface -- Introduction -- SECTION ONE: COMMUNITY IN SOUTH ASIAN CULTURES -- Gods, Kings, and the Caste System in India -- Commercial Economy of an Urban Temple in India: A Shift from Inheritance to Consignment Rights -- The Indian Caste Community as a Social System -- Social Cohesion and Reciprocation in a Tibetan Community in Nepal -- SECTION TWO: CULTURES OF THE SOVIET UNION -- Interaction of Cultures Among Peoples of the USSR -- Development of Traditional Aspects of National Culture in the Soviet Central Asian Republics -- SECTION THREE: COMMUNITY AND WORLD JUDAISM -- The Jews as an Ethnic Group in the Americas During the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries -- Ancestor Memorialism: A Comparison of Jews and Japanese -- Some Functional and Structural Aspects of Family Life in a Communal Society: The Financial Sector of the Kibbutz Family -- Jewish Communities as Cultural Units -- SECTION FOUR: COMMUNAL SOCIETY IN AMERICA -- Eschatological Living: Religious Experience in the Shaker Community -- Religious Orientation of the Communal Counter-Culture: God, Nature, and Mysticism in Contemporary Society -- Rituals of Community in an American Religious Youth Group Meeting -- The Country Place: An Intentional, Therapeutic Community -- Ethnography of Religious Factors in a Politically Oriented Communal Group of New England -- Aspects of Personality in a Communal Society -- Communitarian Experiments and the Self -- Biographical Notes -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.