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The traditional kinship system of the Nayars of Malabar
Prepared for the Social Science Research Council Summer Seminar on Kinship, Harvard University • [s.l.] • Published In 1954 • Pages:
By: Gough, Kathleen.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a historical-functional analysis of Nayar caste kinship structure. A brief survey of the history of the Malabar (northern Kerala) coast reveals that there have traditionally been three major political areas, each with a different kinship system. The author discusses how the central area of South Malabar and Cochin (central Kerala) is differentiated into sub-castes, each having separate administrative functions, and each having a kinship system influenced by occupation, relationship to the land, and historical traditions. Evidence is presented for the emergence of a bilateral system. A concluding section deals with the structure of royal lineages.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Castes
- Classes
- Kinship terminology
- Kin relationships
- Community structure
- Inter-community relations
- Real property
- Rule of descent
- Lineages
- Kindreds and ramages
- Status, role, and prestige
- Settlement patterns
- Form and rules of government
- External relations
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Kerala
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2017
- 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
- 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.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- R. H. Ewald; 1956
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1947-1949
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1792-1954
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- northern and central Kerala, India
- NotesAdditional notes
- E. Kathleen Gough
- Unpublished manuscript ; prepared for the Social Science Reserch Council Summer Seminar on kinship at Harvard University, 1954
- The HRAF manuscript is a typed copy of a mimeographed original. Original page numbers appear in brackets in the text. Map I from the original has not been reproduced.
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Kerala (India)