"Kanni-Mangala" : a microcosm of Coorg identity toward an alternative interpretation and analysis of the Coorg marriage ceremony

Srinivas, who has written the only anthropological monograph on the Coorgs of South India, proposes that they are "sanskritized", that is, that they adopted Hindu concepts and beliefs in order to raise their religious and social status to that of the Kshatriya-Varna. Conceptualizing the ma...

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Main Author: Owsanecki, Peter Franz
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2010
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/25195

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