VILLAGE INDIA: Studies in the Little Community

Eight villages in seven different linguistic areas and five provinces of India are here illuminated by detailed analyses of caste, community, structure, personality, religion, world view, and the current forces of social change. As component units within a complex, ancient, and today newly important civilization, Indian villages offer a challenging field for study of peasant culture and society.

McKim Marriott, PhD in Anthropology (Chicago, 1955), is Professor at the Department of Anthropology in Social Sciences Collegiate Division of the University of Chicago. He has done field work in Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra; and authored varied studies on rural social organization and change. He is concerned with formulating and simulating indigenous sociologies and psychologies in India, Japan, and other countries.