Documents
eHRAF is comprised of thousands of ethnographic sources including monographs, journal articles, dissertations and manuscripts. Use this page to find relevant documents by searching or filtering. Each document in eHRAF also contains a Publication Information page with added metadata including brief abstracts written by HRAF analysts who have subject-indexed the file.
Marriage and the family in KeralaBook 1977 • Puthenkalam, J. (Joseph)
Kerala • Asia > South Asia
This book revisits two major features of marriage and family life among the Nayar and associated matrilineal castes in Kerala: one is a joint matrilocal family, primarily consisting of matrilineally-related women and their children; the other is a cu...