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Bachelors Anthropology University of British Columbia

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According to Wikipedia, Dr. Brenda E.F. Beck , also known as Brindha Beck, is a Canadian anthropologist and exporter of Tamil culture. She has published eight books and authored over sixty journal articles and is a key figure in raising awareness of Tamil culture in Toronto, Canada, where many Tamil Indians settled after the Tamil Diaspora. She lived in Olapalayam near Kangayam for two years in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. She spent two years there for her doctorate in anthropology, awarded by the University of Oxford . The title of the thesis was Social and conceptual order in Koṅku. She published her research in a book under the title of Peasant Society in Koňku.

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Brenda Beck's Published Works

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Colour and Heat in South Indian Ritual (1969) (93)
Peasant Society in Konku: A Study of Right and Left Subcastes in South India (1973) (87)
The Metaphor as a Mediator Between Semantic and Analogic Modes of Thought (1978) (56)
The symbolic merger of body, space and cosmos in Hindu Tamil Nadu (1976) (51)
The Right-Left Division of South Indian Society (1970) (42)
Folktales of India (1988) (23)
The Three Twins: The Telling of a South Indian Folk Epic (1983) (17)
The Goddess and the Demon. A Local South Indian Festival and its Wider Context in Autour de la Déesse hindoue. (1981) (12)
13 – Leadership Among Bank Managers: A Structural Comparison of Behavioral Responses and Metaphorical Imagery* (1984) (9)
The Epic of Palnadu: A Study and Translation of "Palnati Virula Katha," a Teluga Oral Tradition from Andhra Pradesh, India (1984) (5)
Perspectives on a Regional Culture. (1982) (5)
Centers and Boundaries of Regional Caste Systems: Toward A General Model (1976) (3)
Social and conceptual order in Koṅku, a region of south India (1968) (2)
The Left-Right Subcastes in South India: A Critique (Review Article) (1975) (1)
Kannimar Shrines and Iconography (2021) (1)
Social and conceptual order in Koṅku (1968) (1)
Body Imagery in the Tamil Proverbs of South India (1979) (1)
Indian minstrels as sociologists: political strategies depicted in a local epic (1982) (1)
The Logical Appropriation of Kinship as a Political Metaphor: An Indian Epic at the Civilizational and Regional Levels (1978) (0)
Becoming a Living Goddess (2018) (0)
Elder brothers story : an oral epic of Tamil (1995) (0)
Tamil Heroic Poetry. By K. Kailasapathy. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1968. xv, 282 pp. Index. $9.00. (1969) (0)
Women, cows, and the cosmic womb : a Tamil winter solstice festival (2020) (0)
The Role of Women in a Tamil Folk Epic (1980) (0)
The Anthropology of the Body by (2010) (0)
What The Sister Knew: A South Indian Folk Epic from the Sister’s Point of View (2014) (0)
Discovering a story (2012) (0)
Guidelines and prototypical design for a community-based secure facility for young offenders (1986) (0)

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