Kindreds of the earth: Badaga household structure and demography. (Book Reviews: Social Anthropology).(Book Review)

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HOCKINGS, PAUL. Kindreds of the earth: Badaga household structure and demography. 302 pp., maps, tables, illus., bibliogr. London, New Delhi: Sage Publications, 1999

Paul Hockings has a long history of research among various groups in south India, including most importantly the Badaga of the Nilgiri Hills in Tamilnadu. This volume presents the results of a number of studies of them, dating back to 1963 in Hockings's own work and to the early nineteenth century in historical documents. The book is quite statistical in content, though readable for all that, and there are also ...

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