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Khasi kinship terms in four dialects
Anthropos • 48 • Published In 1953 • Pages: 396-412
By: Ehrenfels, Umar R..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article is concerned with Khasi kinship terms -- a comparative analysis of their use in four different dialect areas, and a discussion of their relationship to the Khasi matrilineal social system. Ehrenfels, an anthropologist, has included lists of kinship terms from each of the dialects, arranged so that comparisons can readily be made and variations noted. He relates some variations in kinship terminology to differing social and economic traits. The data was collected during a five week period using a Khasi interpreter and informants.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Kinship terminology
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Khasi
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1996
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Asia
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- South Asia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Irving Rosenthal ; 1970
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1950
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1950
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Meghalaya, India
- NotesAdditional notes
- Umar R. Ehrenfels
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Khasi (Indic people)