essay
Marriage in Tamil culture: the problem of conflicting 'models'
powers of Tamil women • (6) • Published In 1991 • Pages: 61-91
By: Daniel, Sheryl B..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This paper focuses on the complexity of defining the coded substance of a husband and wife and thus determines the actions that are conducive to marital harmony. This ostensibly simple task was shown to be complicated by the fact that villagers came up with not one but at lease three 'models' which were intended to define the exact nature of the coded substance in question. Further, it was shown that these models, when seen in the abstract, appeared to contradict each other. The ethic of lila on the one hand and the Kali Uuga rationale on the other, however, were found to neutralize the mutual exclusivity of these models and render unterstandable their co-occurrence and co-operation (pp. 87-88).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Castes
- Gender status
- Ethnopsychology
- Family relationships
- Ethics
- 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
- 1974-1976
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1974-1976
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- village of Kalappur (a pseudonymn), Tamil Nadu, India
- NotesAdditional notes
- Sheryl B. Daniel
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 90-91)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 91035987
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Tamil (Indic people)