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The Purums are a Tibeto-Burman indigenous ethnic group of Manipur state in India. They are (or were) notable because their marriage system is the subject of ongoing statistical and ethnographical analysis; Buchler states that "they are perhaps the most over-analyzed society in anthropology".[3] Purums marry only in selected sibs; the allowed sibs are fixed by traditional customs. The Purums are divided into five sibs, namely, Marrim, Makan, Kheyang, Thao and Parpa.[4] There is no indigenous centralized government.[5] They use Meitei language as their second language (L2) according to the Ethnologue.[6]
Key Information
According to the 1931 Census of India, the Purums numbered 145 men and 158 women, all practising their ancestral ethnic religion; in 1936 they numbered 303 individuals but in the 1951 census they numbered only 43 individuals.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ "Census of India".
- ^ "Meitei | Ethnologue". Ethnologue. Retrieved 3 May 2023.
- ^ Buchler, I. R. (1969). Game theory in the behavioural sciences. Pittsburgh University Press.
- ^ White, H. C. (1963). An anatomy of kinship. Prentice=-Hall.
- ^ a b Needham, R. (1958). "A structural analysis of Purum society". American Anthropologist. 60 (1): 75–101. doi:10.1525/aa.1958.60.1.02a00080.
- ^ "Meitei | Ethnologue". Ethnologue. Retrieved 3 May 2023.
External links
[edit]- http://cec.nic.in/wpresources/module/Anthropology/PaperVIII/10/content/downloads/file1.pdf
- http://oldror.lbp.world/UploadedData/6938.pdf
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