Kerala (India), September 1937, David G. Mandelbaum

Описание: David G. Mandelbaum (1911-1987)
Scenes of Jewish life in Kerala
Photographic Laboratories, University of Minnesota, n.d.
Lantern slides, after black and white transparencies (photographic slides) taken in Kerala, India, September 1937
Gift of David G. Mandelbaum, David Goodman Mandelbaum collection of visual materials on Jewish life in Kerala, India, 76.311


David Goodman Mandelbaum, who taught at the University of California, Berkeley from 1946 until his retirement in 1978, was one of the first cultural anthropologists to undertake ethnographic research in India. In 1937, he visited Kerala during the High Holy Days, and spent two weeks with the Jewish community there, documenting many of their customs, taking photographs and a short film, and collecting material he published in “The Jewish Way of Life in Cochin” (Jewish Social Studies 1/1939) and in several later articles. Mandelbaum served in the U.S. Army in India and Burma during the Second World War, and taught at the University of Minnesota before coming to U.C. Berkeley. His many publications included the authoritative two-volume Society in India (1970). His analysis of the social structure of the Kerala Jews had a significant influence on subsequent scholarship about them.

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