Clarence Maloney

Biographic Data

ID188476
NAMEClarence Maloney
GIVEN NAMESClarence
FAMILY NAMEMaloney
SIGNATUREMALONEY C
AFFILIATIONSSeton Hall University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS15
TOTAL CITATIONS17
AUTHOR COUNT15
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1970
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR1989
H-INDEX2

  • The Anthropology in South Asian Development and Population Projects

    Clarence MaloneyARTICLEPracticing Anthropology1989

    In principle, there should be wide scope for anthropologists and other social scientists in the vast efforts for life-betterment in the South Asian countries (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, Maldives, and possibly Afghanistan). This article points out a few areas where the anthropological perspective is critical. The latter part of the article presents some experiences of the author, who has worked for over 20 years directl…

  • Life Stages, Gender and Fertility in Bangladesh

    Moni Nag, K M Ashraful Aziz et al.ARTICLEPopulation and Development Review1987

    This pioneering study describes the psychological development and gender role expectations in the various life stages of an individual in Bangladeshi culture and relates these stages to sexual and reproductive behavior. The authors both anthropologists examined the topical life histories of 65 male and female respondents from 5 contiguous villages in Matlab Thana. These personal histories form the basis for chapters on stages of life childhood an…

  • Beliefs and Fertility in Bangladesh

    T R Balakrishnan, Clarence Maloney et al.ARTICLEPacific Affairs1983

  • Beliefs and Fertility in Bangladesh

    M C, Jody C Miller et al.ARTICLEPopulation and Development Review1982

  • People of the Maldive Islands

    Joseph Tharamangalam, Clarence MaloneyARTICLEPacific Affairs1982

  • Technological Change and the Social Organization of Agricultural Production [and Comments and Reply]

    John Clammer, John R Clammer et al.ARTICLECurrent Anthropology1980References: 6

    Each for different reasons, depending on the dominant theories of their disciplines, anthropologists, engineers, and economists have not paid sufficient coordinated attention to the technical knowledge found in local populations, different from the technology and the processes of social change that have been institutionalized by the capitalist system of production although not necessarily independent of them. In this paper we reconsider some conc…

  • On Anthropology and Policy Studies

    Mona Fikry, Michael M Horowitz et al.ARTICLECurrent Anthropology1980Cited by: 2

  • The Evil Eye

    Tobin Siebers, Clarence MaloneyARTICLEModern Language Notes1977

  • Comment on Hockings' Review of Peoples of South Asia

    Open AccessClarence MaloneyARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist1976

  • The Maldives: New Stresses in an Old Nation

    Clarence MaloneyARTICLEAsian Survey1976Cited by: 1

    Research Article| July 01 1976 The Maldives: New Stresses in an Old Nation Clarence Maloney Clarence Maloney Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Far Eastern Survey (1947) 16 (7): 654–671. https://doi.org/10.2307/2643164 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite S…

  • Seven Community Profiles

    Open AccessDennis Mcgilvray, Dennis B Mcgilvray et al.ARTICLERAIN1975

  • South Asia: Seven Community Profiles

    T Scarlett Epstein, Clarence MaloneyARTICLEMan1975Cited by: 5

  • Religious beliefs and social hierarchy in Tamil Nādu, India

    Open AccessClarence MaloneyARTICLEAmerican Ethnologist1975Cited by: 8References: 2

    Tamil villagers define key words of Hindu philosophy, such as dharma, karma, and samsara, in different ways, according to their social situation, for the usual definitions amount to doctrines of the religious elite. Many villagers reject the Brahmanical tendency to pull lower castes in the direction of Sanskritization. Their religion focuses on particularistic deities, whose power is manifest through shamans to solve personal problems

  • The Real Language Problem in South Asia

    Clarence MaloneyARTICLEAsian Affairs An American Review1974Cited by: 1

  • The Beginnings of Civilization in South India

    Clarence MaloneyARTICLEThe Journal of Asian Studies1970

    sThe diffusion of Indian Civilization and its "great tradition" to the extreme south of the peninsula occurred in the earliest stages by sea, not by land. Such characteristics of civilization as script and literacy, kingship and the state, and organized religions, developed at first in the earliest urban centers in Tamil Nadu, which were located on the coast opposite Ceylon. In the half millennium before Christ there was sea traffic between the c…