Matrilateral Cross-Cousin Marriage among the Chothe of Manipur
Year: 2007
Type: article
Abstract: This article highlights the prevailing status of prescriptive marriage alliance system among the Chothe, often wrongly called Purum, which took centre stage in social anthropology in the early 1960s. It also deals with many confusions and doubts prevailing in the literature on matrilateral cross-cousin marriage. It shows that the Chothe kinship and marriage system is, to use Rodney Needham’s words, ‘ideal, stable and adaptive’ even today, despite considerable changes that have occurred since the time of Tarak Chandra Das, who worked on the Chothe during 1930s.
Source: Sociological Bulletin
Author: Cheithou Charles Yuhlung
Institution: North Eastern Hill University
Language: English
Topic: Marriage and Family Dynamics
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2293963120