SV: SV: SV: Kinship systems

[Vanbakkam Vijayaraghavan]

On Thu, 2 Nov 2000 10:46:33 -0800, Swaminathan Madhuresan
<smadhuresan at YAHOO.COM> wrote:

>> 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.

Arabs and generally Middle-eastern people have parellel cousin marriages.
On the other hand cross cousin marriages are practiced across the globe.
For example Yanamano in the Amazon and Akan of west africa have cross
cousin marriage
http://www.umanitoba.ca/anthropology/tutor/kinmenu.html.

Are you going to include  Yanamano and Akan among Dravidians? Do you have
definite information on the marriage practices of speakers of Brahui,
Malto, Kudukh, Gondi, Konda, Kui, Manda,Parji, Gadaba, Kolami, Pengo,
Naiki, Kuvi, Telugu, Tulu, Kannada, Kodagu, Toda, Kota?