Women, Family, and Child Care in India: A World in Transition

by Susan C. Seymour

Book Overview

This book presents an in-depth study of 24 Hindu families, of different caste and class groups, who reside in a recently urbanizing part of India. Beginning with a two-year study of family... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521598842
• ISBN13: 9780521598842
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Long Lasting Impressions

This author has wrote her stories through a family (families) in Orissa, a state in Northeastern India - central coastline. I feel it is more sociological than anthropolical (and may be an easier read) than the book by Margaret Trawick (Notes on Love in a Tamil Family). However, I still find Margaret's book more enthralling!