Book

Notes on love in a Tamil family

University of California PressBerkeleyPublished In 1990 • Pages:

By: Trawick, Margaret.

AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This monograph describes the experiences of the author and her family living in the household of a south Indian family in Tamil Nadu during the years of 1975-1988. Her observations of family life supplemented by information provided by her pricipal informant, a Tamil scholar by the name of Themozhiyar, who provides a major part of the ethnographic data presented in this work. The central theme of this book is the concept of love in a Tamil family and Trawick describes different aspects of Tamil family life that touch upon love, such as kinship organization, childrearing, sexual relations, habits of speaking, and rules of behavior.
SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
Theoretical orientation in research and its results
Informants
Life history materials
Reviews and critiques
Family relationships
Ethnopsychology
Drives and emotions
Verbal arts
Kinship terminology
cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
Tamil
HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
2009
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.
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; 2007
Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
1975-1976, 1979-1988
Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
1975-1988
Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
Tamil Nadu, India
NotesAdditional notes
Margaret Trawick
'A Philip E. Lilienthal book.'
Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-292) and index
LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
89004954
LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
Trawick, Margaret/Tamil (Indic people)-Social life and customs/Love