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Toda culture thirty-five years after: an acculturation study

Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, Annals19 (2) • Published In 1939 • Pages: 101-121

By: Emeneau, M. B. (Murray Barnson).

Abstract
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 of this survey (1937). The author only discusses those few cultural areas where changes were found (religion, marriage, economic system, land use, population figures, intertribal relations, the influence of the bazaar), concluding that most of these have been merely superficial additions. As a whole, he found the Todas in very much the same state as Rivers did and changes due to outside influences were found to be extremely slight.
Subjects
Sociocultural trends
Acculturation and culture contact
Pastoral activities
External relations
Exchange transactions
Real property
Missions
Spirits and gods
culture
Toda
HRAF PubDate
2010
Region
Asia
Sub Region
South Asia
Document Type
article
Evaluation
Creator Type
Linguist
Document Rating
5: Excellent Primary Data
Analyst
Millicent Kim; 1963-1964
Field Date
1935-1937
Coverage Date
1935-1937
Coverage Place
Nilgiri Hills, southern India
Notes
Murray B. Emeneau
Includes bibliographical references
LCCN
25006272
LCSH
Toda (Indic people)