McKim Marriott
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McKim Marriott is an American anthropologist. Marriott received a PhD from the University of Chicago in 1955.
Marriott has studied villagers and urbanites of Asia and professionals of Asia, including Japan. He criticized Western categories which often present obstacles to understanding peoples, and he elaborated alternative models for studying differing cultural realities.
Selected Publications
- 1998 The female family core explored ethnosociologically. Contributions to Indian Sociology. 32: 279-304
- 1997 A Description of SAMSARA, A Realization of Rural Hindu Life. Chicago: McKim Marriott.
- 1992 Alternative social sciences. In J. MacAloon, ed., General Education in the Social Sciences. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, pp. 262-278.
- 1991 On ‘Constructing an Indian ethnosociology’ Contributions to Indian Sociology. 25:295-308.
- 1990 (Editor) India through Hindu Categories. New Delhi/Newbury Park/London: Sage Publications.