Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • General Editor's Preface
  • Introduction
  • SECTION ONE Community in South Asian Cultures
  • Gods, Kings, and the Caste System in India
  • Commercial Economy of an Urban Temple in India: A Shift from Inheritance to Consignment Rights
  • The Indian Caste Community as a Social System
  • Social Cohesion and Reciprocation in a Tibetan Community in Nepal
  • SECTION TWO Cultures of the Soviet Union
  • Interaction of Cultures Among Peoples of the USSR
  • Development of Traditional Aspects of National Culture in the Soviet Central Asian Republics
  • SECTION THREE Community and World Judaism
  • The Jews as an Ethnic Group in the Americas During the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
  • Ancestor Memorialism: A Comparison of Jews and Japanese
  • Some Functional and Structural Aspects of Family Life in a Communal Society: The Financial Sector of the Kibbutz Family
  • Jewish Communities as Cultural Units
  • SECTION FOUR Communal Society in America
  • Eschatological Living: Religious Experience in the Shaker Community
  • Religious Orientation of the Communal Counter-Culture: God, Nature, and Mysticism in Contemporary Society
  • Rituals of Community in an American Religious Youth Group Meeting
  • The Country Place: An Intentional, Therapeutic Community
  • Ethnography of Religious Factors in a Politically Oriented Communal Group of New England
  • Aspects of Personality in a Communal Society
  • Communitarian Experiments and the Self
  • Biographical Notes
  • Index of Names
  • Index of Subjects.