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Changing familial roles among south Malabar Nayars
Southwestern journal of anthropology • 18 (3) • Published In 1962 • Pages: 230-245
By: Mencher, Joan P..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The traditional Nayar caste household consisted of a large number of matrilineally-related persons. With the advent of government-legislated land reforms beginning in the 1930s, this unit gradually broke down into smaller nuclear families of the kind widely found elsewhere in India. This article discusses the continuity of distinctively matrilineal residence patterns and gender roles in the face of this change.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Family relationships
- Extended families
- Polygamy
- Household
- Castes
- Kin relationships
- Residence
- Gender status
- Real property
- Gender roles and issues
- Regulation of marriage
- Mode of marriage
- Rule of descent
- Lineages
- 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
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Anthropologist
- 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
- Teferi Abate Adem ; 2016
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1958-1960
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1930-1960
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Malappuram district, Kerala, India
- NotesAdditional notes
- Joan P. Mencher
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 244-245)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 47005758
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Kerala (India)