Behind Mud Walls - Seventy-Five Years in a North Indian Village Updated & Expanded Edition

1. Auflage 2001
ISBN: 978-0-520-22710-1
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 404 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 139 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 463 g

In 1925, William and Charlotte Wiser arrived in the North Indian village of Karimpur. Over the next five years they wrote one of the first studies of village India, originally published in 1930. Charlotte Wiser continued to observe and write about the village until her death, when Susan Wadley picked up the narrative. With updates from the 1960s, 1970s, 1984, and 2000, this expanded edition now encapsulates seventy-five years of continuity and change in the village.

The book traces the initial awkwardness between the Wisers and the villagers and the years of friendship and welcome that followed; sketches the social and economic changes brought on by the increasing encroachment of the outside world; and describes the day-to-day life of people who live in the village—the education of the young, life in the courtyard, castes, marriage, and family. The book now stands as a personal and insightful story of the village and the people who came to study it.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wiser, William

Wiser, Charlotte

Weitere Mitwirkende

Mandelbaum, David G.

Wadley, Susan S.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophische Anthropologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Agrarsoziologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

FOREWORD
PREFACE TO THE 2000 EDITION
PREFACE TO THE 1989 EDITION
PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION, 1930

BEHIND MUD WALLS 1930-1960
I FRIEND OR FOE?
II THE LEADERS
III THOSE WHO FOLLOW
IV THE UNTOUCHABLES
V OCCUPANTS OF THE FRONT ROOM
VI IN FAMILY COURTYARDS
VII THE YOUNGER GENERATION
VIII AGENTS OF AUTHORITY
IX "LET ALL THINGS OLD ABIDE"
X RETURN TO THE FAMILIAR
XI THE NEW
XII THE YOUNG MEN SPEAK
THE VILLAGE IN 1970
XIII THE VILLAGE IN 1970
XIV POSTSCRIPT
THE VILLAGE IN 1984
XV THE VILLAGE IN 1984
XVI THE VILLAGE IN 1998
THE VILLAGE IN 1998

APPENDIX: DEMOGRAPHIC TABLES
APPENDIX: PHOTOGRAPHS
BIBLIOGRAPHY
GLOSSARY
INDEX

Über Autor(innen)

William and Charlotte Wiser set up Indian Village Service, a community oriented village development organization that became one of the key models used by the Indian government for its Block Development Programs. Susan S. Wadley is Ford Maxwell Professor of south Asian Studies and Professor of Anthropology at Syracuse University. She is the author of Struggling with Destiny in Karimpur, 1925-1984 (California 1994). David G. Mandelbaum is author of Society in India (California, 1990).