Foreword -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Diagrams -- David Mandelbaum and the Rise of South Asian Studies: A Reminiscence -- David G. Mandelbaum: Fifty Years of Scholarship, 1936-1986 -- SECTION ONE: FAMILY, KINSHIP AND PERSONHOOD -- Authority, Power and Autonomy in the Life Cycle of the North Indian Woman -- Living the Levirate: the Mating of an Untouchable Chuhra Widow -- Life History: Nonconformity and the Syntax of Metaexperience -- The Psychodynamics of Nayar Family Life: the Matrilineal Puzzle Re-examined -- The Armenian Godfather Complex -- Of Siblings and Cousins: Some Notes on Toda Kinship in the Light of Recent Writings -- SECTION TWO: OLD TRIBES AND NEW -- Single Persons and Social Cohesion in a Hunter-Gatherer Society -- Death Comes to an American Indian Tribe -- The Lahushi Bakio: Birth of a New Tribe -- SECTION THREE: CULTURE AREAS AND CULTURAL THEMES -- Transcendental and Folk Aspects of Judaism -- Houses with Centered Courtyards in Kerala and Elsewhere in India -- The Right Hand is the 'Eating Hand': an Indian Areal Linguistic Inquiry -- Yankee City in Renaissance -- SECTION FOUR: INVESTIGATING HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT -- The Impact of Social and Economic Development on Mortality: a Comparative Study of Kerala and West Bengal -- The Chipko Movement in the Indian Himalayas -- Urbanization and Social Change: Concepts and Techniques -- Investigating Back Pain: the Implications of Two Village Studies in South Asia -- Western Economists in South Asia: Some Afterthoughts on an Experience -- Quarry and Field: Sources of Continuity and Change in a Rajasthani Village -- "Mental" in "Southie": Individual, Family and Community Responses to Psychosis in South Boston -- SECTION FIVE: CASTE IN INDIA -- Early Evidence for Caste in South India -- Untouchability, the Untouchables and Social Change in Gujarat.

The Denial of Caste in Modern Urban Parlance -- The Caste System and its Future -- SECTION SIX: STRATIFICATION AND ETHNICITY -- Ethnic Group Distribution and Political Influence in South India -- Ethnicity in Peninsular Malaysia: the Idiom of Communalism, Confrontation and Co-operation -- Social Stratification in the United States -- Class, Caste and Caste-ism -- SECTION SEVEN: THE INTEGRATION OF CIVILIZATIONS -- Pluralism, Pilgrimage and National Unity in Sri Lanka -- Tourism and English National Identity: Corkaguiney and the Nilgiris -- Germany and Hitler's Anti-Semitism -- Caste and the Construction of Other-Worldly Civilizations -- Biographical Notes -- Index.