The Householder’s World – John Gray

THE HOUSEHOLDER’S WORLD
John N. Gray
This book provides a new approach to anthropological analyses of societies with multiple layers of social life. Through a detailed study of a multicaste village in the Kathmandu Valley, it investigates the structure of the household and its multiple linkages with the wider society. Gray describes how as householders, villagers construct social relations both within and between domestic groups which impacts on their understanding of purity, power, and dominance in wider social contexts.
An important contribution to the theory and method of constructing ethnographic accounts, this study will be useful to students and scholars of anthropology and sociology.
John N. Gray is Professor of Anthropology, University of Adelaide. …an excellent contribution to South Asian anthropology. Gray uses a novel “inside-out” approach to analyze the “ontology” of the dharmic status of the householder in a Nepalese village and to focus on the relationship of the household to wider sociocultural domains.’