Book
South India: the Tamil people and their country
Druck'und Verlag von C. Bertelsmann • Gⁿtersloh • Published In 1899 • Pages:
By: Gehring, Hans, Schütze, Frieda.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This source presents a general descriptive ethnography of the Tamil people as they existed in South India during the latter part of the 19th century. Despite the at times rather ethnocentric view of the author (a Lutheran missionary) in dealing with various aspects of the native culture (e.g. religion, the Brahman caste, etc.), the researcher will find an abundance of data on such things as geography, material culture, agriculture, fauna, flora, sex status, and general information on Tamil character, manners and customs. These data comprise the first half of this work. In the second half, Gehring takes the reader on an excursion through Tamil Land, describing in turn his observations on the northern districts, the Kaveri River Delta, Tondiman country, the southern districts, and the mountainous western region. In the latter section, particularly in the section on the 'Blue Mountains,' the author presents additional ethnographic data on the Toda (AW60), and the lesser known ethnic groups of Badaga (AW50), Kurumba (AW56), Kota (AW55), Irula (AW53) and the Malayali (AW63).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Castes
- Culture summary
- 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
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Missionary
- 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.
- 3: Good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; Jan Simpson ; 1983
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- NotesAdditional notes
- By Hans Gehring
- Translation of: [Land und volk der Tamulen]
- Translated from the German for the Human Relations Area Files by Frieda Schütze ca. 1983
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Tamil (Indic people)/Tamil Nadu (India)--Social life and customs