book chapter
The Lakher or Mara clan
Lushei Kuki clans • London • Published In 1912 • Pages: 213-224
By: Shakespear, John.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This brief document is an early description of the Mara by an officer in a British expeditionary force who subsequently was appointed colonial superintendent for the area. The focus is on Mara peoples’ historical and cultural relations with neighboring ethnic groups. Compared to the Chin and Lushais the author characterizes the Mara as less democratic in their social organization, a feature sharply reflected by the many village chiefs who exercised absolute powers. Within each village, the Mara recognized social groups that held unequal rights and duties to one another. These perceived social inequalities played out in different life situations, including gender relations, marriage customs, burials, religious practices, and property ownership.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Identification
- Location
- Inter-ethnic relations
- Community structure
- Form and rules of government
- Classes
- Slavery
- Ornament
- Gender status
- Basis of marriage
- Regulation of marriage
- Mode of marriage
- Arranging a marriage
- Family relationships
- General character of religion
- Burial practices and funerals
- Animism
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Mara
- 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
- book chapter
- Evaluation
- Creator TypesThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Soldier
- Colonial Officer
- 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
- Teferi Abate Adem ; 2019
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1889-1896
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1889-1911
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- southern Saiha, Mizoram, India
- NotesAdditional notes
- by Lt.-Colonel J. Shakespear
- Pub. under the orders of the government of Eastern Bengal and Assam …
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 14000139
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Lakher (Asian people)