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Kinship and marriage regulations among the Namboodiri Brahmans of Keralaarticle 1967 • Mencher, Joan P. & Goldberg, Helen
Kerala • Asia > South Asia
The kinship and marriage practices of the Namboodiri Brahman caste have long been viewed as atypical for the region. Unlike the culturally-related Nayar caste that lived in large, matrilineally-related extended families, Namboodiri Brahmans were orga...