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Nayar: north Kerala
Matrilineal kinship • Berkeley • Published In 1961 • Pages: 385-404, 746-748
By: Gough, Kathleen.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This work on the Nayar caste of northern Kerala provides an analysis of kinship and matrilineal descent, coupled with an account of Nayar political structure. An introductory sketch of Kerala ecology and geography, and a brief discussion of the economic and political systems of northern Kerala are followed by an intensive study of Nayar matrilineal units—clans, subclans, lineages and property groups. This, in turn, is followed by a comparative study of developments and changes in the social organization and property systems between northern and central Kerala. The study concludes with an examination of specific kinship relations including matrilineal kin, marriage, the father and his kin, and affines; a list of kinship terms completes the section.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Castes
- Classes
- Community structure
- Community councils
- Tillage
- Settlement patterns
- Kin relationships
- Avuncular and nepotic relatives
- Regulation of marriage
- Lineages
- Clans
- Artificial kin relationships
- Residence
- Special unions and marriages
- Kinship regulation of sex
- Purification and atonement
- Household
- Extended families
- Nuclear family
- Polygamy
- Inheritance
- 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
- essay
- 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
- John Beierle; 1964-1968
- 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
- 1730-1949
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- northern Kerala, India
- NotesAdditional notes
- Kathleen Gough
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 746-748)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 61007523
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Kerala (India)