The gonds of Andhra Pradesh: tradition and change in an Indian tribe
By: Furer-Haimendorf, Christoph von
| Furer-Haimendorf, Elizabeth von
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TextLanguage: English Publisher: United Kingdom -- Routledge -- 2022Description: ix, 569pISBN: 9781032156590Subject(s): Gond (Indic people) | Andhra Pradesh | Social conditions | IndiaDDC classification: 301.29 FUR/G Summary: The author's long-standing familiarity with many individual Gonds has allowed him to draw in this book, originally published in 1979, an intimate picture of the life of a specific village community and to trace the fates of individual men and women over a long stretch of time.
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Preface.
1. The Gonds in History and Literature
2. The Material and Cultural Environment
3. The Settlement Pattern
4. The Village as a Social Unit
5. The Neighbourhood
6. Phratries – The Main Pillars of the Social Structure
7. The Clan System
8. The Feudal System – Past and Present
9. Pardhans – The Bards of the Gonds
10. Tribal Justice and Social Values
11. The Mythological Foundations of the Social Order
12. The Early Phases of Life
13. Avenues to Marriage
14. Marriage, Divorce and Inheritance
15. The Kinship System
16. Death and the Cult of the Dead
17. Farming – The Basis of Gond Economy
18. Religious Beliefs and Practices
19. The Cult of the Clan Deities
20. The Changing Fortunes of the Adilabad Gonds.
Glossary.
Bibliography.
Index.
The author's long-standing familiarity with many individual Gonds has allowed him to draw in this book, originally published in 1979, an intimate picture of the life of a specific village community and to trace the fates of individual men and women over a long stretch of time.