Category: Irawati Karve
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Irawati Karve: The Woman Who Studied India’s Soul Through Caste, Kinship, and Culture
She was India’s first woman anthropologist whose career started when disciplines of sociology and anthropology were still developing as university disciplines. She was the founder of anthropology at Pune University. She had been a writer and essayist; a translator of feminist poems and an Indologist. She had worked in times when institutionalisation of the subjects…
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kinship organization in India: Irawati Karve ( Summary Notes)
kinship organization in India: Every individual has relationships with other people around them. this is the basic system that takes place in all human societies. it organizes people and groups and therefore it is known as the system of kinship. Radcliffe Brown viewed kinship as a part of the social structure and gave importance to…