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<p>This book focuses on the household of the Badagas, a community that lives in the Nilgiri Hills in southern India. Paul Hockings reports his unique longitudinal study of this community, covering 27 years of measurement and sociocultural change in four sample villages, where he conducted censuses every nine years. Combining his knowledge of anthropology, demography, and linguistics, the author focuses primarily on demographic transition and social change over time. He also studies kinship, marriage, household structure, and various aspects of Badaga contemporary life, including the influence of the mass media, schooling, their economy, and migration. The overall purpose is to understand the nature of the process of modernization among them. The most important conclusion that Paul Hockings reaches is that the Badagas, more specifically their womenfolk, have managed to cap any population explosion that was previously underway. Among his other findings are that Badaga modernization has occurred without significant industrialization; fertility has declined significantly during one generation, which is largely the consequence of changing attributes toward children's inherent worth; and

Author

Paul Hockings with a foreword by John C. Caldwell

Publisher

SAGE Publications Pvt. Ltd

Published

1998

Language

EN

ISBN

9788170367635

Subjects

Sociology, History, Science