Symbol and meaning in Nayar marriage ritual

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ID2466089
AuthorsMelinda A Moore (University of Chicago, corresponding author)
Year1988
Volume15
Issue2
Pages254-273
Publication date1988-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Ethnologist (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0094-0496 • E-ISSN: 1548-1425
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1525/ae.1988.15.2.02a00040
OpenAlexW2101458084
LanguageEN
Citations received7
References cited10

This paper examines the three ceremonies of the Nayar marriage complex-tälikettukalyänam, tirandukalyänam, and the ceremony beginning a sambandham relationship-as rituals consisting of indigenously meaningful symbols. These rituals are shown to have significantly different yet comparable focuses, based on their treatment of persons of each gender and of the prestige and social connections of tayavads. The symbolic representation of the taravad as a house-and-land unit is found to be a unifying theme

Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Ceremony · Epistemology · Linguistics · Meaning (existential · Political science · Prestige · Psychoanalysis · Representation (politics · Sociology · Symbol (formal · The Symbolic · Theme (computing · Unit (ring theory · Ancient Near East History · Anthropology · Computer Science · Eurasian Exchange Networks · Gender Studies · History · Law · Linguistics and Cultural Studies · Philosophy · Psychology

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