Government of IndiaMatriliny among the Khasis A Study in Retrospect and Prospect
Author: M. Sasikumar
Keywords: Kinship
Khasi(Indic People)-India
Matrilineal Kinship
Sawmer
Publisher: Gyan Publishing House, Delhi and Anthropological Survey of India, Kolkata
Description: The study conducted in Nongkrem and Sarwmer Villages of East Khasi Hills District, Meghalaya, India. Kinship studies were central to anthropological researches in the mid-twentieth century, and later, for a few decades. Kinship study is the crown of anthropology. It is to anthropology what the study of the state is to political science. Kinship relations are universally found, notwithstanding the scale of society, although in contemporary times, it may not be the principle of social organization as Lewis H. Morgan thought. The ubiquity of kinship is because each society has bonds of consanguinity and affinity – the kinspersons share biogenetic substances, though the adoption of children in a group from the other groups may also be practised, and persons conquered as slaves from neighbouring communities may also be adopted in a family in the course of time depending upon their good demeanour.
Type: E-Book
Received From: Anthropological Survey of India (AnSI)
| DC Field | Value |
| dc.contributor.author | M. Sasikumar |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2020-11-06T09:39:05Z |
| dc.date.available | 2020-11-06T09:39:05Z |
| dc.description | The study conducted in Nongkrem and Sarwmer Villages of East Khasi Hills District, Meghalaya, India. Kinship studies were central to anthropological researches in the mid-twentieth century, and later, for a few decades. Kinship study is the crown of anthropology. It is to anthropology what the study of the state is to political science. Kinship relations are universally found, notwithstanding the scale of society, although in contemporary times, it may not be the principle of social organization as Lewis H. Morgan thought. The ubiquity of kinship is because each society has bonds of consanguinity and affinity – the kinspersons share biogenetic substances, though the adoption of children in a group from the other groups may also be practised, and persons conquered as slaves from neighbouring communities may also be adopted in a family in the course of time depending upon their good demeanour. |
| dc.format.extent | 145p. |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf |
| dc.language.iso | English |
| dc.publisher | Gyan Publishing House, Delhi and Anthropological Survey of India, Kolkata |
| dc.subject | Kinship Khasi(Indic People)-India Matrilineal Kinship Sawmer |
| dc.type | E-Book |
| dc.date.copyright | 2019 |
| dc.format.medium | text |
| DC Field | Value |
| dc.contributor.author | M. Sasikumar |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2020-11-06T09:39:05Z |
| dc.date.available | 2020-11-06T09:39:05Z |
| dc.description | The study conducted in Nongkrem and Sarwmer Villages of East Khasi Hills District, Meghalaya, India. Kinship studies were central to anthropological researches in the mid-twentieth century, and later, for a few decades. Kinship study is the crown of anthropology. It is to anthropology what the study of the state is to political science. Kinship relations are universally found, notwithstanding the scale of society, although in contemporary times, it may not be the principle of social organization as Lewis H. Morgan thought. The ubiquity of kinship is because each society has bonds of consanguinity and affinity – the kinspersons share biogenetic substances, though the adoption of children in a group from the other groups may also be practised, and persons conquered as slaves from neighbouring communities may also be adopted in a family in the course of time depending upon their good demeanour. |
| dc.format.extent | 145p. |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf |
| dc.language.iso | English |
| dc.publisher | Gyan Publishing House, Delhi and Anthropological Survey of India, Kolkata |
| dc.subject | Kinship Khasi(Indic People)-India Matrilineal Kinship Sawmer |
| dc.type | E-Book |
| dc.date.copyright | 2019 |
| dc.format.medium | text |
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