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How is cultural background of States of India reflected in the attributes of sex and age structure?

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  • Cultural Setting

Tim Dyson and Mick Moore argued that northern and southern India differ in kinship structure, and that this — not income — governs female autonomy and so demographic behaviour. The north practises village and clan exogamy: a daughter marries a stranger at a distance and enters her husband's household without kin support. The south permits…

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  • Kinship as the Upstream Variable
  • The Northern Exogamous Belt
  • The Southern Close-Kin Belt
  • Tribal and Matrilineal Zones
  • Where the Frame Does Not Hold
  • Judgement

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