From Field to Factory: Community Structure and Industrialization in West BengalFrom Field to Factory explores the impact of a modern factory on a Bengal agricultural village and the impact of the village's social and ideological systems on the factory. Morton Klass provides ethnographic data on life and work in both the village and factory and assesses theories of community, caste, village religion, and industrialization. This book will interest sociologists and anthropologists interested in South Asia, community structure, caste, village-level religion, and the anthropology of work. Previously published in 1978 by the Institute for the Study of Human Issues. |
Contents
THE VILLAGE OF GONDOGRAM | 27 |
SEPERATION INTERACTION HIERARCHY | 42 |
HOUSEHOLD AND FAMILY | 50 |
KINSHIP AND CASTE | 59 |
LIFE CYCLED AND RITES OF PASSAGE | 77 |
PRODUCING A CROP | 85 |
LIVESTOCK IN GONDOGRAM | 98 |
SERVICES AND SPECIALISTS | 109 |
A COMMUNITY CALENDER | 172 |
STRUCTURE PROCESS AND MAYA | 182 |
THE VILLAGE AND THE FACTORY | 191 |
RICELAND AND BICYCLES | 193 |
THE VIEW FROM THE FACTORY | 201 |
THE VILLAGE RESPONSE | 206 |
PERSPECTIVES VALUES PROBLEMS | 216 |
FAMILY JATI AND THE FACTORY | 225 |
GONDOGRAMS NEIGHBORS | 117 |
THE VILLAGE AND THE UNIVERSE | 129 |
GOOD AND EVIL | 131 |
SOUL AND SPIRIT | 137 |
GODS AND GONDOGRAM | 145 |
LITTLE TRADITION TRANSCENDENTAL AND PRAGMATIC | 158 |
CALENDERS CLOCKS AND ROUNDS | 165 |
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agricultural ancestors animal Asansol Barber Bauris and Santals bhôdrôlok bhut bighas Bihar boys Brah Brahman families Brahman households Brahmans of Gôndôgram brothers calendar Carpenters caste cattle ceremony claim côkrô crop cultivation day laborers deity Deyasi Dharmôraj Dhopa different jatis Distillers district divinity dôgram Durga Durga Puja economic employed employment factory officials father fields girls goats godparents Gôn Gôndô Gôndôgram Brahmans Gôndôgram villagers Gopalgram gotrô gram gramer hierarchy Hindu Hôripôdô Dube India inhabitants of Gôndôgram interaction jat-brothers jibatta joint-family Kali Puja Kanauj Brahman Krisnapur land landholders live mahindôr male malik marriage marriage-circle Mônôśa month mouja naiki Napit nearby neighbors offer ojha Pande paṛa paras particularly patrilines performed prayers pukur relationships represented resident rice ricefields Rôkkhô-Kali rupees sacrifice Salanpur seen sharecropping shrine Śiva social śômaj temple Tilimunda tion usually village Washermen water buffalo West Bengal women