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Contents
List of Figures and Tables
System of Kinship Notations
Acknowledgements
Introduction: The Anthropology of Values / P. Berger, R. Hardenberg, E.
Katner and M. Prager
Select Works of Georg Pfeffer : A Comprehensive Bibliography / Compiled by
B. Schiller and G. Beckmann
A Conversation on 'Values' with Georg Pfeffer / P. Berger and R. Hardenberg
Part 1
Kinship, Gender, and Classification
1. Siblingship as a Value in Middle India / Christopher A. Gregory
2. Gifts at Marriage in the Muslim Punjab / Anjum Alvi
3. Parents and Children in the Pakistani Punjabi Family : A Case of
Marriage and Inheritance / Azam Chaudhary
4. The Continuity of Life : Food, Gender, and Kinship in Azerbaijan /
Ingrid Pfluger-Schindlbeck
5. The Distinction of Sex and Generation in Gawigl Relationship Terminology
: An Exercise / Almut Schneider
6. Symbolic Classification in Northwest Coast Art / Abraham Rosman and
Paula G.Rubel
Part 2
Debating Caste and Tribe
7. A Reconsideration of Hinduization and the Caste : Tribe Continuum Model
/ Roland Hardenberg
8. The Priest and the Village Headman : Dual Sovereignty in the Nilgiri
Hills / Frank Heidemann
9. Conviviality and Periphery : The Social Life of Industrial Workers in
South Orissa / Christian Struempell
Part 3
Holism, Individualism, and the Making of the Person
10. The Concept of Biba among the Rona of Highland Orissa : Wedding Rituals
to Ensure Health / Tina Otten
11. Seven Men, Six Women : Names and the Socio-cosmic Order of Maliku
(Minicoy Island) / Ellen Kattner
12. Becoming a Lao Person : Rituals of Birth and Socialization in Luang
Prabang, Laos / Jos D. M. Platenkamp
13. Society Encompassing the Moral Man, or the Moral Man Encompassing
Society? : Some Reflections on Korea / Inge
Roesch-Rhomberg
14. Erotics and Politics in the Agenda of an Interracial (Black and White )
Gay Men's Association in New York / Moshe Shokeid
15. Reading Tracks / Jeanne Berrenberg
Part 4
Ritual, Sacrifice, and Pilgrimage
16. From the Brahmanas to Nuer Religion : One Strand in Studies of
Sacrifice / Nicholas J. Allen
17. 'Who Are You, Brother and Sister?' : The Theme of 'Own' and 'Other' in
the Go'ter Ritual of the Gadaba / Peter Berger
18. The Go'ter Ritual of the Gadabas According to Duaru from Tikapada
(1965) : A Gutob Text Translated / Arlo Griffiths
19. Death and the Death Rites : The Practice of Double Burial among the
Kunhu-speaking People of Northwest Orissa / Deepak Kumar Behera
20. Rituals of First Menstruation in South India : A Comparison / Gabriele
Alex
21. The Pilgrimage to Shatrunjaya : Refining Shvetambara Identity / Andrea
Luithle-Hardenberg
22. Navratri Celebrations in Kacchch in the 1990s / Helene Basu
Part 5
Myth and History
23. Northerners in South India and Ceylon / Harry Falk
24. Yayati Kesari Revisited : Ramachandra of Khurda and the Yayati Kesari
Legend of Puri / Hermann Kulke
25. The Thighs of Lord Jagannath : Notes on the Jangha Bardeo Cult of the
Gond of Western Orissa / Uwe Skoda
26. Tales of a Tank : The Siddh Sagar in Mandi / Elisabeth Conzelmann
27. The Appropriation of the 'Stranger King' : Polarity and Mediation in
the Dynastic Myth of Bima / Michael Prager
28. Clytemnestra and Penelope in the Odyssey / Hartmut Zinser
About the Editors and the Contributors
Index
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