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- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Editor's Note
- The Anthropologist and the Native: Essays for Gananath Obeyesekere
- SECTION I THE INDIAN TRADITION AND ITS REPRESENTATION
- SECTION II CASTE, KINSHIP, LAND AND COMMUNITY
- Recasting a Caste: The Case of the Dadhich Brahmans
- Reconstituting Village Communities: Sir William Gregory's Efforts to Renovate Village Agriculture in Ceylon's North Central Province
- Dowry in Batticaloa: The Historical Transformation of a Matrilineal Property System
- SECTION III RENUNCIATION AND POWER
- SECTION IV BUDDHISM TRANSFORMED
- SECTION V THE ENIGMA OF THE TEXT
- SECTION VI THE ANTHROPOLOGIST AND THE NATIVE
- List of Contributors
Dowry in Batticaloa: The Historical Transformation of a Matrilineal Property System
from SECTION II - CASTE, KINSHIP, LAND AND COMMUNITY
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 May 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Editor's Note
- The Anthropologist and the Native: Essays for Gananath Obeyesekere
- SECTION I THE INDIAN TRADITION AND ITS REPRESENTATION
- SECTION II CASTE, KINSHIP, LAND AND COMMUNITY
- Recasting a Caste: The Case of the Dadhich Brahmans
- Reconstituting Village Communities: Sir William Gregory's Efforts to Renovate Village Agriculture in Ceylon's North Central Province
- Dowry in Batticaloa: The Historical Transformation of a Matrilineal Property System
- SECTION III RENUNCIATION AND POWER
- SECTION IV BUDDHISM TRANSFORMED
- SECTION V THE ENIGMA OF THE TEXT
- SECTION VI THE ANTHROPOLOGIST AND THE NATIVE
- List of Contributors
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- The Anthropologist and the NativeEssays for Gananath Obeyesekere, pp. 137 - 160Publisher: Anthem PressPrint publication year: 2011