book chapter
The polyandry of the Thandans (Tiyas), Kammalans, and other artisan castes of Kerala
study of polyandry • The Hague • Published In 1963 • Pages: 159-239, 594-601
By: Peter, Prince of Greece.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This chapter from a broader study focuses the polyandry of the artisan castes of Kerala. Although some background information is given, the bulk of the material describes individual polyandrous households and gives genealogical charts for each.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Traditional history
- History
- Territorial hierarchy
- External relations
- Ethnic stratification
- Castes
- Classes
- Occupational specialization
- Religious denominations
- Purification and atonement
- Avoidance and taboo
- Clans
- Basis of marriage
- Regulation of marriage
- Special unions and marriages
- Sexual intercourse
- 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 chapter
- 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; 1965
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1939, 1949
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1792-1949
- 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
- Prince Peter of Greece and Denmark
- Only pages 159-239, 575-601 and accompanying plates (fig. 5-17), map ii, tables 3-20 have been processed for the Aw11 Kerala file
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 594-601)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 63006065
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Kerala (India)