Tribal Families and Fertility at Crossroads
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Edition
1st ed.
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ISBN
8170994675
Length
xviii+115p., Figures; Tables; Maps; Appendix; Bibliography; Index; 23cm.
Subjects
Tribal supernatural beliefs, particularly those concerning witchcraft, disease, fertility, Infant-mortality, are widespread in rural populations, whereas urbanisation has brought in technological, economic and educational changes in their environment. Thus at urban areas, for them it is a world in which mass-produced goods and occupation with mechanised implements are as familiar as the new-eating-ceremonies. Thus there follows a cyclic change in marriage-pattern ...
