SV: SV: SV: Kinship systems

Swaminathan Madhuresan smadhuresan at YAHOO.COM
Thu Nov 2 18:46:33 UTC 2000


> 1.Cross-cousin marriages. It is practiced not only in the South India , but
> also in Pakistan (Punjabi speakers) and Arabian countries also. Punjabi and
> Arabic are not Dravidian languages. Hence your proposal falls flat here.
> And do you have any studies to show the Wide prevalence of cross-cousin
> marriages among all the 18 types of Dravidian speakers? Even in South India
> , do you have any study to show what percentage of marriages are cross
> cousin?

 Punjabis and Arabs do not have cross cousin weddings and are not included
 as people with Dravidian kinship. OTOH, parallel cousin weddings
 are a hallmark of the Arabians, which is found in the Bible too.


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