Note: Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke

Note: 1. publ. 1994 ; Description based upon print version of record. - Weitere Ausgabe: Print version ---〉 I: Islam, Economics, and Society

Note: Includes bibliogr. references and index

Note: "This book is a reproduction of Continuum: journal of media & cultural studies, volume 24, issue 6."--T.p. verso. - Includes bibliographical references and index. - What is entertainment -- The institutions of entertainment -- Entertainment and its audiences -- Entertainment education

Note: Originally published: 1992

Note: Includes bibliographical references and index. - Introduction / Henrike Donner -- Masculinity, advertising, and the reproduction of the middle-class family in Western India, 1918-1940 / Douglas E. Haynes -- Gendered bodies, domestic work, and perfect families : new regimes of gender and food in Bengali middle-class lifestyles / Henrike Donner -- "Keeping it in the family" : work, education, and gender hierarchies among Tiruppur's industrial capitalists / Geert De Neve -- Cultural contractions and intergenerational relations : the construction of selfhood among middle class youth in Baroda / Margit van Wessel -- Globalisation, neoliberalism, and middle-class cultural politics in Kolkata / Timothy J. Scrase and Ruchira Ganguly-Scrase -- The social transformation of the medical profession in urban Kerala : doctors, social mobility, and the middle classes / Caroline Wilson -- Kitty-parties and middle-class femininity in New Delhi / Anne Waldrop -- Zara hatke ("somewhat different") : the new middle classes and the changing forms of Hindi cinema / Rachel Dwyer

Note: Literaturangaben

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Note: I-IV -- , General Editor's Preface -- , Foreword -- , Introduction -- , SECTION ONE General Issues -- , Fourfold Classifications of Society in the Himalayas -- , Kinship and Culture in the Himalayan Region -- , Cultural Implications of Tibetan History -- , Homo hierarchicus Nepalensis: A Cultural Subspecies -- , Hierarchy or Stratification? Two Case Studies from Nepal and East Africa -- , Himalayan Research: What, Whither, and Whether -- , SECTION TWO The South Asian Perspective -- , Actual and Ideal Himalayas: Hindu Views of the Mountains -- , Stratification and Religion in a Himalayan Society -- , Changing Patterns of Multiethnic Interaction in the Western Himalayas -- , An Additional Perspective on the Nepali Caste System -- , Maiti-Ghar: The Dual Role of High Caste Women in Nepal -- , Dhikurs: Rotating Credit Associations in Nepal -- , The Role of the Priest in Sunuwar Society -- , A New Rural Elite in Central Nepal -- , Nepalis in Tibet -- , Modernizing a Traditional Administrative System: Sikkim 1890-1973 -- , Bureaucracy and Bureaucrats: A Few Themes Drawn from the Nepal Experience -- , SECTION THREE The Central Asian Perspective -- , The Retention of Pastoralism among the Kirghiz of the Afghan Pamirs -- , Correlation of Contradictions: A Tibetan Semantic Device -- , The White-Black Ones: The Sherpa View of Human Nature -- , Tibetan Oracles -- , Some Aspects of Pön -- , Tibetan Bon Rites in China: A Case of Cultural Diffusion -- , The Saintly Madman in Tibet -- , Trans-Himalayan Traders in Transition -- , Tibetan Communities of the High Valleys of Nepal: Life in an Exceptional Environment and Economy -- , Tibetan Culture and Personality: Refugee Responses to a Culture-Bound TAT -- , Εthnogenesis and Resource Competition among Tibetan Refugees in South India: A New Face to the Indo-Tibetan Interface -- , The "Abominable Snowman": Himalayan Religion and Folklore from the Lepchas of Sikkim -- , SECTION FOUR Perspectives Merged: The Newars -- , Notes on the Origins of the Newars of the Kathmandu Valley of Nepal -- , Symbolic Fields in Nepalese Religious Iconography: A Preliminary Investigation -- , Intercaste Relations in a Newar Community -- , The Role of the Priest in Newar Society -- , Structure and Change of a Newari Festival Organization -- , A Descriptive Analysis of the Content of Nepalese Buddhist Pūjās as a Medical-Cultural System with References to Tibetan Parallels -- , Biographical Notes -- , Index of Names -- , Index of Subjects , Issued also in print. , Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. , In English.

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