The Pasts of an Indian Village
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2107430 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Bernard S Cohn, Bernard Cohn (University of Rochester, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1961 |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 241-249 |
| Publication date | 1961-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Comparative Studies in Society and History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0010-4175 • E-ISSN: 1475-2999 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0010417500012202 |
| OpenAlex | W2140226291 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 17 |
| References cited | 5 |
Events of the last two hundred years have led many scholars to divide the societies of the world into contrasting pairs, such as developed-under-developed, advanced-backward, traditional-modern. Central to these concepts are not only ideas about the level of technological development, but the very character of the societies and cultures which are compared and contrasted as well. Professor Edward Shils has recently remarked that the traditional society is one in which, among other things, there is a strong attachment to the past, by which behavior is determined and validated. Solutions to problems old and new are determined by the past of the society, and modernization quickens when ties to the past begin to be cut and new criteria for determining and validating behavior are invoked
Character (mathematics · Modernization theory · Political economy · Political science · Social science · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · History · Law · Mathematics · Social and Economic Development in India · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
The Social Organization of Indian Civilization
Tales of Two Cities
Tribal Studies
Two Meanings and Uses of Tradition
The Historian as anthropologist
Institutions, transactions, and rationality
The Archaeology of the Colonized
Fall of a tyrant, or heroic last stand? Tipu Sultan and the moral undercurrent in historiography
Disquiet on the island
The Abuses of Memory
Le monde ne sera plus jamais le même
Political Conflict in Ten Villages in India, Pakistan and Ceylon
Reading Ruins against the Grain
History and Forgetting in an Indigenous Amazonian Community
A Pragmatic Past
Ghosts of hierarchy II
Beyond Tradition and Modernity in Madras
| Unique citing works | 17 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,27 |
| Citation span | 1964 - 2022 (59) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 16 |