article
Toda marriage regulations and taboos
American anthropologist, n.s. • 39 • Published In 1937 • Pages: 103-112
By: Emeneau, M. B. (Murray Barnson).
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article supplements and corrects earlier data provided by Rivers (Rivers, 1906 eHRAF document 1) pertaining to Toda marriage regulations and taboos. Abstracts of traditions and legends associated with the matrilineal kin groupings are also presented. The author is a linguist who spent three years among the Todas.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Kinship regulation of sex
- Regulation of marriage
- Arranging a marriage
- Kinship terminology
- Clans
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Toda
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2010
- 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
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Linguist
- 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
- Mary L. Bartlett; 1954
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1935-1937
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1935-1937
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Nilgiri Hills, southern India
- NotesAdditional notes
- Murray B. Emeneau
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 0002007294
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Toda (Indic people)