When a great tradition modernizes : an anthropological approach to Indian civilization
- Author/Creator:
- Singer, Milton B.
- Publication/Creation:
- Chicago : Chicago University Press, 1980
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Full Title:
- When a great tradition modernizes : an anthropological approach to Indian civilization / Milton Singer ; foreword by M. N. Srinivas
- Series Titles:
- Midway reprints
Midway reprints.
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Description/Summary
- Table of Contents:
- I. India and the comparative study of civilization -- 1. Passage to more than India: a sketch of changing European and American images -- 2. Text and context in the study of contemporary Hinduism --
II. Structure and transformation of a Great Tradition -- 3. Search for a Great Tradition in cultural performances -- 4. The social organization of Sanskritic Hinduism in Madras city -- 5. Urbanization and cultural change: bhakti in the city --
III. Myth, ritual, and social change -- 6. The Rādhā-Krishna bhajanas of Madras city --
IV. Modernization and traditionalization -- 7. The social organization of Indian civilization -- 8. Industrial leadership, the Hindu ethic, and the spirit of socialism --
V. Beyond tradition and modernity -- 9. Beyond tradition and modernity in Madras. - Language:
- English
- Physical Type/Description:
- xviii, 430 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- General Note:
- Reprint of the ed. published by Praeger, New York.
Includes index.
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- Catalog ID (MMSID):
- 990014948830302486
- ISBN:
- 0226761029
9780226761022 - OCLC Number:
- 09227687
- Barcode:
- 010000848974
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