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020			_a9781032156590
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100			_aFurer-Haimendorf, Christoph von _912757
100			_aFurer-Haimendorf, Elizabeth von _912758
245		4	_aThe gonds of Andhra Pradesh: tradition and change in an Indian tribe
260			_bRoutledge -- _aUnited Kingdom -- _c2022
300			_aix, 569p.
500			_aPreface. 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.
520			_aThe 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.
650			_aGond (Indic people) _912759
650			_aAndhra Pradesh _912760
650			_aSocial conditions _98840
650			_aIndia _98837
942			_cBK