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The Nayars, 2003.
An anthropological study of the Nayars, a matrilineal civilization.
1,809 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 58.95
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The Nayars are one of the few known matrilineal civilizations in existence. Matrilineal families are those where descent is traced in the female line, from mothers to daughters. In this unique society, women are valued members of the family. This paper presents an an anthropological study of the Nayars civilization of India. It compares and contrasts their beliefs with those of patriarchic societies like our own. The paper includes a photograph.
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"There are three times when the Nayar people in a clan will observe ?pollution.? Pollution is a time when certain traditional rituals will be performed. These times are after childbirth, menstruation, and death. After a woman has given birth, she observes pollution for fifteen days. She may not enter the kitchen and she eats separately from the rest of the family. She does not touch other members of the clan, other than her children under the age of six (Fuller 48). Fifty-eight days after childbirth she is allowed back into the temple."
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The Definition of Marriage, 2003.
A discussion on whether it is possible to formulate a definition of marriage with cross-cultural validity.
3,925 words (approx. 15.7 pages), 13 sources, MLA, $ 106.95
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This paper examines the arguments over how one can formulate a cross-cultural definition of marriage. Through a literature review, it looks at some some definitions of marriage as well as some of the ethnographies that subvert and call into question how we actually conceptualise marriage. These include the Na of Lijang, the Nayar of central Kerala, the debate over the Virgin Birth and Bourdieu?s work on marriage with a parallel patrilateral cousin. It attempts to show how these case studies call into question some of the basic understandings of kinship and marriage as formulated by both descent and alliance theorists. It concludes by looking at some of the more recent developments in kinship theory and how they can help us work towards a definition of marriage.
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"The economic and social factors involved in marriage have tended to be reified by many kinship theorists. One can trace some of the origin for why marriage definitions and kinship studies of marriage have been reified and abstracted in an attempt to produce harmonious wholes in the Virgin Birth debate. Dogma and ritual, Leach (1968) points out, to not necessarily correspond to internal states. One could equally argue that the reified systems of kinship studies show little relationship to how marriage actually works in all of its ambiguities."
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