STRUCTURAL AND FUNCTIONAL CHANGES OF FAMILY DURING POST-INDUSTRIALIZATION: AN ANTHROPOLOGICAL STUDY

Abstract

This paper examines the changing context of family due to industrialization around the Hirakud reservoir in Odisha, India. With an objective of how industrialization has altered the family institution of project affected peoples, it attempts to comprehend the socio-economic transition of few selected family in two rehabilitated colonies comparing with non-affected villages. Data collected through anthropological techniques in selected villages portrays that process of industrialization not only jeopardize family epitome but has altered the kinship structure surrounding the family. Furthermore, the data also reveal that industrialization has led to vulnerable condition of the project affected family compared to non-affected family and later become a dominant structure influencing the social institutions- family, kinship and marriage-of former.