Name: India: Cultural Patterns And Processes
ISBN: 9780429048678

ABSTRACT

In this comprehensive analysis of India's cultural patterns and processes, the authors address both the diversity and the unity of India's culture, emphasizing the spatial distribution of cultural forms.

chapter 1|28 pages

The Culture of India in Spatial Perspective: an Introduction

chapter 2|15 pages

The Spatial Variation of Indian Literacy

chapter 3|23 pages

The City as Jungle in the Indo-English Novel

chapter 4|12 pages

Urban Environment and Citizen Perception: the Calcutta Experience

chapter 5|23 pages

Ethnic Neighborhoods in Indian Cities: the Paras of Dumka and the Bengali Tola of Bhagalpur

chapter 6|20 pages

Rural House Types and Village Settlement Patterns

chapter 7|21 pages

Caste and Urban House Type in South India: Brahmin Houses in Tamilnadu and Karnataka

chapter 8|18 pages

Indian Dance: Classical Unity and Regional Variation

chapter 9|30 pages

The Geography of Folk Art in India

chapter 10|26 pages

The Architecture and Organization of Kerala Style Hindu Temples

chapter 11|25 pages

Patterns of Religious Diversity

chapter 12|20 pages

Ahimsa, Man and Animals: Aspects of Religion in the Cultural Landscape of Western India

chapter 13|19 pages

The Sacred Cow Concept: Its Impact on other Bovines, Economic Life, and Human Genetics

chapter 14|13 pages

Cultural Patterns and Health and Disease in India

chapter 15|23 pages

Diet and Disease: Some Cultural Aspects of Food Use in India

chapter 16|12 pages

Patterns of Indian Pastoralism

chapter 17|18 pages

Cultural Ecology of Rural Settlements in the Chandigarh Dun Region

chapter 18|12 pages

Decision-Making Groups and Agrarian Spatial Change

chapter 19|7 pages

The Cultural Geography of India in Perspective

India: Cultural Patterns And Processes