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A structural definition of a folk deity of Tamil Nad: Aiyanar, the Lord
Religion, politics and history in India • The Hague • Published In 1970 • Pages: 20-32
By: Dumont, Louis.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This source discusses the nature and multiple identities of the god Aiyanar.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Spirits and gods
- Organized ceremonial
- Castes
- Sacred objects and places
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Tamil
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2019
- 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
- Jan Simpson ; Marlene Martin
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1949-1950
- NotesAdditional notes
- Louis Dumont
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 74152078
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Tamil (Indic people)