Articles by David G Mandelbaum

David G Mandelbaum It is useful to sort out two meanings of the term region. One refers to a human region as defined by outside observers, based on their perceptions and taxonomy, using general 'etic' criteria to specify Us nature and extent The other is the region as perceived by participants in it, as understood in the insiders 'emic' perceptions as engaging their sense of identity and attracting their loyalties. A person nor- molly identifies with several regions, of narrower or wider scape; ones loyalties are made manifest to a closer region in a particular situation, to a broader one in a different context.

Ethnology as Science and as Art FEW accounts of village life give one the sense of coming to know, of vicariously sharing in, the lives of real villagers that this book' conveys. The village is called Rampura, a medium- sized community in the Mysore district of Kamataka. It is -The Remembered Village-' of the title because of the circumstances in which it was written. In 1970 M N Srinivas was a Fellow at the Centre for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford in California and had just begun writing the results of the field research in Rampura that he had started in 1948. His sources were the fieldwork notes that he had been developing for the past 18 years. Then one night an arsonist set a fire at the Centre and all these notes were burned to ashes. The original field notes and diaries were in Delhi but the long effort of arranging and collecting them had disappeared in the flames.

Violence in America An Anthropological Perspective David G Mandelbaum Violence is more highly approved in some societies than in others, American society is not one of those in which violence is toned down. It is the easier solution in drama and popular literature at any rate.