essay
The auspicious married woman
powers of Tamil women • (6) • Published In 1991 • Pages: 35-60
By: Reynolds, Holly Baker.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This paper seeks to explore the nature of the married woman's power, its sources, and the way in which conceptions of female power motivate female ritual activity (p. 36).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Gender status
- Adulthood
- Puberty and initiation
- Purification and atonement
- Ornament
- Nuptials
- Celibacy
- Spirits and gods
- 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
- 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
- John Beierle; 2007
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1973-1975
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1973-1975
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Madurai District, Tamil Nadu, India
- NotesAdditional notes
- Holly Baker Reynolds
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 59-60)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 91035987
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Tamil (Indic people)