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Economics --- General ecology and biosociology --- Engineering sciences. Technology --- economics --- ecology --- technology [general associated concept]
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We report observations and inquiries regarding enculturation and education in the context of change primarily due to urbanization in the village we call Shanti Nagar during the years 1958 and 1959. Although the processes of enculturation and education are related, they are contrasted as two types of learning, enculturation being the traditional learning found among family, kin, and community; and education, a newer type, having to do with the attainment of literacy in formal schooling. Although the study is largely descriptive, comparisons are drawn between the two major types of learning and their function in preparing the individual and community for the modern world. In addition, in this study we describe the problems of changing from one system of learning to another, and indicate the different rates of change occurring historically and during the period of our fieldwork for caste communities, and for the sexes.
Teaching --- education --- India: North
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This anthropological psychomedical case history of 35 years in the life of Sita describes and analyzes the complexity of behavioral symptoms called ghost possession and fits in the Delhi region of North India. The conditions contributing to these alternate mental states will be shown to be due to biological, cultural, and psychological causes. An absentee father in military service, the deaths of 12 of her siblings as infants in Sita's childhood, and three of her girl friends during pubescence are linked with the culturally conditioned belief that death may be due to a malevolent female ghost and with the individual psychological fear that mating results in death. In her childhood, Sita developed an anxiety disorder that contributed to her ghost possessions after she married at 15 years of age. With the birth of her first child, Sita's possessions became fits. Although formerly her behavior would have been labeled hysteria, the present analysis points to multiple causes-genetic and other biological processes, an anxiety disorder, and culturally induced stresses-which produced sufficient pain to trigger Sita's alternate mental states.
Social stratification --- Psychiatry --- Human medicine --- castes --- women [female humans] --- India: North
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The results of the 1981 Indian census showed a slight increase in the rate of population growth despite an energetic governmental campaign to reduce fertility, the growing use of contraception, a substantial number of sterilized persons, and a declining birthrate. The longitudinal ethnographic analysis of population data from Shanti Nagar dating from the 1950s and the 1970s suggests that the growth rate of the population might be better understood if analytical emphasis were to be shifted somewhat from birth and death rates to survivorship, that is, the average number of living children per mother, thus focusing attention on the family, the social unit in which the decisions are made that give rise to national demographic rates and averages. Currently, the principle fertility decision that a Shanti Nagar couple must make is whether to undergo sterilization and how many children are deemed necessary before taking this step. Analysis of the Shanti Nagar data shows that women of completed fertility in the 1970s had more living children than comparable women in the 1950s, and that even the sterilized couples of the 1970s had only slightly fewer children than the almost entirely noncontracepting women of the 1950s. Although the age of women at their own (or their husbands') sterilization is falling and the operation takes place after fewer children than formerly, the average sterilized couple nonetheless has more than 4 children instead of the 2 or 3 that the Government of India prefers. An analysis of the relationship to fertility of various modernization variables, such as urbanization and enhanced economic status, fails to show any consistent correlation of such variables with reduced fertility. School attendance by females is perhaps the most promising of the modernization veriables, but its effect is somewhat ambiguous and relatively weak until women achieve the college level. Current trends suggest that soon after 2025, India may surpass China as the world's most populous nation.
Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Demography --- India: North
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This monograph is the ninth of a series devoted to the description and analysis of life in Shanti Nagar, a village in the Union Territory of Delhi. Our research is based on holistic fieldwork carried out in 1957-59 and 1977-1978. Previous monographs, all published in the Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, have dealt with social organization, economics, rites of passage, fertility and sterilization, elections, sickness and health, enculturation and education, and ghosts in the context of a woman's psychomedical case history. The present monograph places ghost illness, ghost possession, and poltergeist attacks in an historical, psychological, ecological, medical, ideological, and holistic ethnographic context. A descriptive and comparative case-study method is central to the analysis. Among the ghost-related topics that are covered are beliefs; causes; gender, age and caste distribution; sectarian differences (the Arya Samaj vs. Sanatan Dharma); and the recruitment, training, and methods of exorcists and curers.
Indian religions --- Comparative religion --- Ethnology. Cultural anthropology --- life stages --- dood --- India: North
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Indian religions --- Hinduism --- India
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Agronomy --- agriculture [discipline] --- India
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