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Toda marriage regulations and taboosarticle 1937 • Emeneau, M. B. (Murray Barnson)
Toda • Asia > South Asia
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 as...Toda culture thirty-five years afterarticle 1939 • Emeneau, M. B. (Murray Barnson)
Toda • Asia > South Asia
This document is a study of the Todas written by a linguist who is primarily interested in whatever changes may have taken place between the time of W. H. R. Rivers study (1902) and the time o...Toda menstruation practicesarticle 1939 • Emeneau, M. B. (Murray Barnson)
Toda • Asia > South Asia
The author, a linguist, describes the menstruation practices of Toda women and contrasts them to those of other Indian communities, specifically the Kotas and Badagas. Kim also discusses the a...Language and social formsessay 1941 • Emeneau, M. B. (Murray Barnson)
Toda • Asia > South Asia
This document presents a detailed study of the kinship system of the Nilgiris Toda in South India, along with an analysis of the functioning of the two sib-systems (patrilineal and matrilineal...