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oapen-20.500.12657-431262020-12-01T01:51:03Z Kinship and History in South Asia Trautmann, Thomas R. Asian history bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBJ Regional & national history::HBJF Asian history Kinship and History in South Asia presents four papers given at a small conference of kinship studies scholars, “Kinship and History in South Asia,” at the University of Toronto in 1973. They draw upon one another and show several common concerns, particularly the theoretical importance of Dravidian systems. Yey they remain specialist studies, each within its own raison d’être. Brendra E. F. Beck contributes a study of the “kinship nucleus” in Tamil folklore, Levi-Straussian both in its treatment of kinship and of mythology. George L. Hart’s study of woman and the sacred in the ancient Tamil literature of the Sangam attempts to elucidate this literature in its own terms, and also to relate it to Beck’s “kinship nucleus.” Thomas R. Trautmann presents a critical examination of the evidence for cross-cousin marriage in early North India, attempting to determine historical fact from literary materials. Narendra K. Wagle offers a survey of the kinship categories to be found in the Pali Jatakas. 2020-11-30T08:44:58Z 2020-11-30T08:44:58Z 2020 book ONIX_20201130_9780472902170_4 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/43126 eng Michigan Papers On South And Southeast Asia application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9780472902170.pdf University of Michigan Press U OF M CENTER FOR SOUTH ASIAN STUDIES 10.3998/mpub.11903441 10.3998/mpub.11903441 e07ce9b5-7a46-4096-8f0c-bc1920e3d889 0314e571-4102-4526-b014-3ed8f2d6750a 13f2bc4f-1b5e-4c9a-ad8c-5727e3ddba67 U OF M CENTER FOR SOUTH ASIAN STUDIES 158 [grantnumber unknown] [grantnumber unknown] National Endowment for the Humanities NEH open access
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Kinship and History in South Asia presents four papers given at a small conference of kinship studies scholars, “Kinship and History in South Asia,” at the University of Toronto in 1973. They draw upon one another and show several common concerns, particularly the theoretical importance of Dravidian systems. Yey they remain specialist studies, each within its own raison d’être. Brendra E. F. Beck contributes a study of the “kinship nucleus” in Tamil folklore, Levi-Straussian both in its treatment of kinship and of mythology. George L. Hart’s study of woman and the sacred in the ancient Tamil literature of the Sangam attempts to elucidate this literature in its own terms, and also to relate it to Beck’s “kinship nucleus.” Thomas R. Trautmann presents a critical examination of the evidence for cross-cousin marriage in early North India, attempting to determine historical fact from literary materials. Narendra K. Wagle offers a survey of the kinship categories to be found in the Pali Jatakas.
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