Bengali



ETHNONYMS: Bangali, Bangladeshi (formerly Bengalee, Baboo)


See also Baul ; Bengali Shakta ; Bengali Vaishnava

Bibliography

Aziz, K. M. Ashraful (1979). Kinship in Bangladesh. Monograph Series, no. 1. Dhaka: International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research.


Bertocci, Peter J. (1980). "Models of Solidarity, Structures of Power: The Politics of Community in Rural Bangladesh." In Ideology and Interest: The Dialectics of Politics, Political Anthropology Yearbook no. 1, edited by Myron J. Aronoff, 97-125. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Books.


Chaudhuri, Nirad (1951). The Autobiography of an Unkown Indian. London: Macmillan.


Davis, Marvin (1983). Rank and Rivalry: The Politics of Inequality in Rural West Bengal. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.


Inden, Ronald B., and Ralph W. Nicholas (1977). Kinship in Bengali Culture. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.


Islam, A. K. M. Aminul (1974). A Bangladesh Village: Political Conflict and Cohesion. Cambridge, Mass.: Schenkman. Reprint. 1990. Prospect Heights, Ill.: Waveland Press.

Östör, Ákos (1980). The Play of the Gods: Locality, Ideology, Structure, and Time in the Festivals of a Bengali Town. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.


Raychaudhuri, Tarak C, and Bikash Raychaudhuri (1981). The Brahmins of Bengal. Calcutta: Anthropological Survey of India.


Roy, Manisha (1972). Bengali Women. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Reprint. 1975.

PETER J. BERTOCCI

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