Dimensions Of Social Life: Essays In Honor Of David G. Mandelbaum (new Babylon)

The prevalence of infectious diseases is worldwide increasing. Therefore, detection methods for infectious pathogens change quickly. In the new edition of Kessler ́s Molecular Diagnostics of Infectious Diseases laboratory professionalists get valueable information about the current diagnostic methods, tipps and tricks in terms of sample processing, quality control, and interpretation of the results. For clinicians the book is a valuable aid for decision-making in ordering appropriate tests as well as in assuring the necessary quality of the sample material. Foreword List of Tables List of Diagrams David Mandelbaum and the Rise of South Asian Studies: A Reminiscence David G. Mandelbaum: Fifty Years of Scholarship, 1936–1986 SECTION ONE: FAMILY, KINSHIP AND PERSONHOOD Authority, Power and Autonomy in the Life Cycle of the North Indian Woman Living the Levirate: the Mating of an Untouchable Chuhra Widow Life History: Nonconformity and the Syntax of Metaexperience The Psychodynamics of Nayar Family Life: the Matrilineal Puzzle Re-examined The Armenian Godfather Complex Of Siblings and Cousins: Some Notes on Toda Kinship in the Light of Recent Writings SECTION TWO: OLD TRIBES AND NEW Single Persons and Social Cohesion in a Hunter-Gatherer Society Death Comes to an American Indian Tribe The Lahushi Bakio: Birth of a New Tribe SECTION THREE: CULTURE AREAS AND CULTURAL THEMES Transcendental and Folk Aspects of Judaism Houses with Centered Courtyards in Kerala and Elsewhere in India The Right Hand is the ‘Eating Hand’: an Indian Areal Linguistic Inquiry Yankee City in Renaissance SECTION FOUR: INVESTIGATING HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT The Impact of Social and Economic Development on Mortality: a Comparative Study of Kerala and West Bengal The Chipko Movement in the Indian Himalayas Urbanization and Social Change: Concepts and Techniques Investigating Back Pain: the Implications of Two Village Studies in South Asia Western Economists in South Asia: Some Afterthoughts on an Experience Quarry and Field: Sources of Continuity and Change in a Rajasthani Village “Mental” in “Southie”: Individual, Family and Community Responses to Psychosis in South Boston SECTION FIVE: CASTE IN INDIA Early Evidence for Caste in South India Untouchability, the Untouchables and Social Change in Gujarat The Denial of Caste in Modern Urban Parlance The Caste System and its Future SECTION SIX: STRATIFICATION AND ETHNICITY Ethnic Group Distribution and Political Influence in South India Ethnicity in Peninsular Malaysia: the Idiom of Communalism, Confrontation and Co-operation Social Stratification in the United States Class, Caste and Caste-ism SECTION SEVEN: THE INTEGRATION OF CIVILIZATIONS Pluralism, Pilgrimage and National Unity in Sri Lanka Tourism and English National Identity: Corkaguiney and the Nilgiris Germany and Hitler’s Anti-Semitism Caste and the Construction of Other-Worldly Civilizations Biographical Notes Index