Joan P Mencher
Biographic Data
| ID | 178874 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joan P Mencher |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joan P |
| FAMILY NAME | Mencher |
| SIGNATURE | MENCHER J P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Columbia University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 213 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1961 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Mixed Blessings: Gender and Religious Fundamentalism Cross Culturally
Taking a woman-centered approach, Mixed Blessings analyzes the effect of religious fundamentalism on gender roles in a variety of religions and nations. It explains how some women benefit from fundamentalism, gaining economic power and autonomy, and portrays how others maneuver within its restrictions. The scope of the book is broad, ranging from Christian groups in North and South America, Islamic groups in the Middle East and China, Jews in Isr…
The War on Bugs, WillAllen. 2007. White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green Publishing
Anthropologists' Network in Tamil Nadu Prove Important
The United States, India, and GM Foods
The Anthropology of Public Policy: Shifting Terrains
As we enter the twenty-first century, the terrain on which social policy is made is changing rapidly. This has resulted in anthropologists, in combination with other social scientists, giving serious attention to the impact of this new phase of globalization on changes in social and environmental policies. This review focuses on the ways in which anthropology as a field has contributed, and continues to contribute, to social policy research, prac…
Where Did All the Men Go? Female-Headed/Female-Supported Households in Cross-Cultural Perspective
A study of the rise in female-headed and female-supported households, this book reveals the disproportionate representation of women and children among the world's poor to structures of inequality in their particular national contexts and examines the strategies employed by women to make a way out of no way. Drawing on examples from around the world, the contributors focus on the factors - restructuring of the labour markets or death and migratio…
Kathleen Gough and Research in Kerala
I cannot begin to talk about Kathleen and her work in Kerala without first mentioning a few reminiscences about my own interaction with Kathleen. When I received a grant back in 1958 to go to Kerala to carry out a study of family life and child - rearing practices among matrilineal groups in the Malabar District of Kerala, I asked Mort Fried if I could write to Kathleen. He said, all means. She is a very open and friendly person and you should no…
Why They Did Not Starve: Blocultural Adaptation in a South Indian Village. Morgan D. Maclachlan
Social Anthropology of Peasantry
Agriculture and Social Structure in Tamil Nadu
Agriculture and Social Structure in Tamil Nadu: Past Origins, Present Transformations and Future Prospects
Women in Rice Cultivation: Some Research Tools
Joan P. Mencher, K. Saradamoni, Janaki Panicker, Women in Rice Cultivation: Some Research Tools, Studies in Family Planning, Vol. 10, No. 11/12, Learning About Rural Women (Nov. - Dec., 1979), pp. 408-412
Why Some of the Poor Get Richer: Economic Change and Mobility in Rural Western India [and Comments]
To the extent that peasants, particularly Indian peasants, are ever considered to be economically mobile, they are generally seen from one of two perspectives: either the Malthusian perspective, which predicts that most landholdings will shrink over time, due to partitioning among multiple heirs; or the Marxian perspective, which predicts that a few landholdings will increase in size at the expense of the vast majority-the latter diminishing, in …
Agriculture and Social Structure in Tamil Nadu: Past Origins, Present Transformations and Future Prospects
Applied Anthropology: Contemporary India and Its Modernization. S . C. Dube : Institutions, Networks, and Social Change . K. N. Sharma : Social Change in India . B. Kuppuswamy
On Studying Rural Inequality
On the Caste System Upside Down
The Caste System Upside Down, or The Not-So-Mysterious East
It has been pointed out that in stratified societies, the evolutionary viability of the state rests in large part on the perfection of institutional structures that protect the ruling class from confrontation with coalitions of educated commoners. This paper makes use of historical materials from various parts of India, as well as contemporary material from one part of India, Tamilnadu, to examine the role of the caste system in preventing the fo…
Political Anthropology: The Nadars of Tamilnad: The Political Culture of a Community in Change. Robert L. HARDGRAVE, JR
Modernization and Development: Kerala Fishermen and the Indo-Norwegian Pilot Project. Arne Martin Klausen
Kinship and Marriage Regulations Among the Namboodiri Brahmans of Kerala
Tradition and Economy in Village India . K. I shwaran
Namboodiri Brahmins: An Analysis of a Traditional Elite in Kerala1
The Cultural Ecology of India's Sacred Cattle [and Comments and Replies]
The relationship between human and bovine population in India has hitherto been widely regarded as an important example of resource mismanagement under the influence of religious doctrine. It is suggested that insufficient attention has been paid to such positive-functioned features of the Hindu cattle complex as traction power and milk, dung, beef and hide production in relationship to the costs of ecologically viable alternatives. In general, t…
Kerala and Madras: A Comparative Study of Ecology and Social Structure
The Cultural Ecology of India's Sacred Cattle [and Comments and Replies]
The relationship between human and bovine population in India has hitherto been widely regarded as an important example of resource mismanagement under the influence of religious doctrine. It is suggested that insufficient attention has been paid to such positive-functioned features of the Hindu cattle complex as traction power and milk, dung, beef and hide production in relationship to the costs of ecologically viable alternatives. In general, t…
The Caste System Upside Down, or The Not-So-Mysterious East
It has been pointed out that in stratified societies, the evolutionary viability of the state rests in large part on the perfection of institutional structures that protect the ruling class from confrontation with coalitions of educated commoners. This paper makes use of historical materials from various parts of India, as well as contemporary material from one part of India, Tamilnadu, to examine the role of the caste system in preventing the fo…
The Anthropology of Public Policy: Shifting Terrains
As we enter the twenty-first century, the terrain on which social policy is made is changing rapidly. This has resulted in anthropologists, in combination with other social scientists, giving serious attention to the impact of this new phase of globalization on changes in social and environmental policies. This review focuses on the ways in which anthropology as a field has contributed, and continues to contribute, to social policy research, prac…
Mixed Blessings: Gender and Religious Fundamentalism Cross Culturally
Taking a woman-centered approach, Mixed Blessings analyzes the effect of religious fundamentalism on gender roles in a variety of religions and nations. It explains how some women benefit from fundamentalism, gaining economic power and autonomy, and portrays how others maneuver within its restrictions. The scope of the book is broad, ranging from Christian groups in North and South America, Islamic groups in the Middle East and China, Jews in Isr…
Social Anthropology of Peasantry
Why Some of the Poor Get Richer: Economic Change and Mobility in Rural Western India [and Comments]
To the extent that peasants, particularly Indian peasants, are ever considered to be economically mobile, they are generally seen from one of two perspectives: either the Malthusian perspective, which predicts that most landholdings will shrink over time, due to partitioning among multiple heirs; or the Marxian perspective, which predicts that a few landholdings will increase in size at the expense of the vast majority-the latter diminishing, in …
Kerala and Madras: A Comparative Study of Ecology and Social Structure
Agriculture and Social Structure in Tamil Nadu: Past Origins, Present Transformations and Future Prospects
Namboodiri Brahmins: An Analysis of a Traditional Elite in Kerala1
Changing Familial Roles among South Malabar Nayars
Women in Rice Cultivation: Some Research Tools
Joan P. Mencher, K. Saradamoni, Janaki Panicker, Women in Rice Cultivation: Some Research Tools, Studies in Family Planning, Vol. 10, No. 11/12, Learning About Rural Women (Nov. - Dec., 1979), pp. 408-412
Modernization and Development: Kerala Fishermen and the Indo-Norwegian Pilot Project. Arne Martin Klausen
Growing up in South Malabar
One major assumption of modern anthropology is that there is a relationship between the institutions and values of a given society, the types of adult behavior favored in that setting, and methods of child rearing. This article, based on research data collected from Nayars and members of other matrilineal caste groups in the village of Angadi, South Malabar, Kerala State, India, suggests a correlation between the form of family organization, idea…
General and Ethnology: Thakurs of the Sahyadri. L. N. Chapekar
General and Ethnology: The Mers of Saurashtra: An Exposition of Their Social Structure and Organization. Harshad R. Trivedi
Changing Familial Roles among South Malabar Nayars
Growing up in South Malabar
One major assumption of modern anthropology is that there is a relationship between the institutions and values of a given society, the types of adult behavior favored in that setting, and methods of child rearing. This article, based on research data collected from Nayars and members of other matrilineal caste groups in the village of Angadi, South Malabar, Kerala State, India, suggests a correlation between the form of family organization, idea…
Namboodiri Brahmins: An Analysis of a Traditional Elite in Kerala1
The Cultural Ecology of India's Sacred Cattle [and Comments and Replies]
The relationship between human and bovine population in India has hitherto been widely regarded as an important example of resource mismanagement under the influence of religious doctrine. It is suggested that insufficient attention has been paid to such positive-functioned features of the Hindu cattle complex as traction power and milk, dung, beef and hide production in relationship to the costs of ecologically viable alternatives. In general, t…
Kerala and Madras: A Comparative Study of Ecology and Social Structure
Kinship and Marriage Regulations Among the Namboodiri Brahmans of Kerala
Tradition and Economy in Village India . K. I shwaran
Modernization and Development: Kerala Fishermen and the Indo-Norwegian Pilot Project. Arne Martin Klausen
Political Anthropology: The Nadars of Tamilnad: The Political Culture of a Community in Change. Robert L. HARDGRAVE, JR
The Caste System Upside Down, or The Not-So-Mysterious East
It has been pointed out that in stratified societies, the evolutionary viability of the state rests in large part on the perfection of institutional structures that protect the ruling class from confrontation with coalitions of educated commoners. This paper makes use of historical materials from various parts of India, as well as contemporary material from one part of India, Tamilnadu, to examine the role of the caste system in preventing the fo…
On the Caste System Upside Down
Applied Anthropology: Contemporary India and Its Modernization. S . C. Dube : Institutions, Networks, and Social Change . K. N. Sharma : Social Change in India . B. Kuppuswamy
On Studying Rural Inequality
Women in Rice Cultivation: Some Research Tools
Joan P. Mencher, K. Saradamoni, Janaki Panicker, Women in Rice Cultivation: Some Research Tools, Studies in Family Planning, Vol. 10, No. 11/12, Learning About Rural Women (Nov. - Dec., 1979), pp. 408-412
Why Some of the Poor Get Richer: Economic Change and Mobility in Rural Western India [and Comments]
To the extent that peasants, particularly Indian peasants, are ever considered to be economically mobile, they are generally seen from one of two perspectives: either the Malthusian perspective, which predicts that most landholdings will shrink over time, due to partitioning among multiple heirs; or the Marxian perspective, which predicts that a few landholdings will increase in size at the expense of the vast majority-the latter diminishing, in …
Agriculture and Social Structure in Tamil Nadu: Past Origins, Present Transformations and Future Prospects
Agriculture and Social Structure in Tamil Nadu
Agriculture and Social Structure in Tamil Nadu: Past Origins, Present Transformations and Future Prospects
Social Anthropology of Peasantry
Why They Did Not Starve: Blocultural Adaptation in a South Indian Village. Morgan D. Maclachlan
Kathleen Gough and Research in Kerala
I cannot begin to talk about Kathleen and her work in Kerala without first mentioning a few reminiscences about my own interaction with Kathleen. When I received a grant back in 1958 to go to Kerala to carry out a study of family life and child - rearing practices among matrilineal groups in the Malabar District of Kerala, I asked Mort Fried if I could write to Kathleen. He said, all means. She is a very open and friendly person and you should no…
Where Did All the Men Go? Female-Headed/Female-Supported Households in Cross-Cultural Perspective
A study of the rise in female-headed and female-supported households, this book reveals the disproportionate representation of women and children among the world's poor to structures of inequality in their particular national contexts and examines the strategies employed by women to make a way out of no way. Drawing on examples from around the world, the contributors focus on the factors - restructuring of the labour markets or death and migratio…
The Anthropology of Public Policy: Shifting Terrains
As we enter the twenty-first century, the terrain on which social policy is made is changing rapidly. This has resulted in anthropologists, in combination with other social scientists, giving serious attention to the impact of this new phase of globalization on changes in social and environmental policies. This review focuses on the ways in which anthropology as a field has contributed, and continues to contribute, to social policy research, prac…
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