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What, according to Irawati Karve, are the major differences between North Indian and South Indian Kinship systems?
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- Systems of Kinship
Irawati Karve, in Kinship Organisation in India (1953), combined Sanskrit and Dravidian texts, kinship terminology and field data. She related kinship patterns to linguistic zones and identified four: a northern (Indo-Aryan) zone, a southern (Dravidian) zone, a transitional central zone and a non-contiguous eastern zone. The sharpest contrast lies between north and south, and it…
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