Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Gods, kings, and the caste system in India / L.K. Mahapatra
  • Commercial economy of an urban temple in India : a shift from inheritance to consignment rights / James J. Preston
  • The Indian caste community as a social system / M.K. Kudryavstev
  • Social cohesion and reciprocation in a Tibetan community in Nepal / B.N. Aziz
  • Interaction of cultures among peoples of the USSR / Yu. V. Arutyunyan
  • Development of traditional aspects of national culture in the Soviet central Asian republics / B.D. Djamgherchinov
  • The Jews as an ethnic group in the Americas during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries / Seymour B. Liebman
  • Ancestor memorialism : a comparison of Jews and Japanese / Howard Wimberley and Joel Savishinsky
  • Some functional and structural aspects of family life in a communal society : the financial sector of the Kibbutz family / Frits J.M. Selier
  • Jewish communities as cultural units / Walter P. Zenner
  • Eschatological living : religious experience in the Shaker community / John H. Morgan
  • Religious orientation of the communal counter-culture : God, nature, and mysticism in contemporary society / David Buchdahl
  • Rituals of community in an American religious youth group meeting / E.M. Sciog
  • The country place : an intentional, therapeutic community / Geoffrey Nusbaum
  • Ethnography of religious factors in a politically oriented communal group of New England / Raleigh E. Bailey, Jr.
  • Aspects of personality in a communal society / John A. Hostetler
  • Communitarian experiments and the self / Carlos C. Drake.