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words of Barnes (1972: 26-7). Among the kinship interactions, the
relation between the first cousins would also fall into the similar type.
The exchange labour between kin families is another instance of
symmetric network relations. The asymmetric relations would include
the established credit relations, casual labour relations as well as the
bureaucratic relations. The non-reciprocal kin relations, as in the case of
sister's and brother's families, would fall under the non-symmetric
relations. The permanent contract labour and patron relation is an
instance of dysemmetric relations.
Concluding Remarks
The chapter has given the diverse interactional openmgs and
networking in the social milieu of sericulture. The friendship
interactions assume special significance in the context of sericulture.
Close kinship relationships are discerned among most of the
sericulturists. There is also a diffusion of sericulture through kinship
influence. Sericulture facilitates the consolidation of kin-relations
through mutual exchange of sericulture resources and knowledge. Such
interactions also help easing out the burden of high investment in
sericulture. Exchange labour is also discerned among the close relatives.
Some sericulturists prefer to engage hired labourers from their own nonsericulture
kin-families. Such relations are found more among the affmal
kin than among the families of brothers.
As there is a decline in the jajmani interactions of the service
castes, sericulture has come to the rescue of some of them who have
some access to land and irrigation resources. The labour interactions
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