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Article: Kerala Brahmins in Transition: A Study of a Namputiri Family.(Book Review)
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- The Journal of the American Oriental Society
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- April 1, 2004
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Kerala Brahmins in Transition: A Study of a Namputiri Family. By MARJATTA PARPOLA. Studia Orientalia, vol. 91. Helsinki: FINNISH ORIENTAL SOCIETY, 2000. Pp. 436, figs.
Marjatta Parpola's ethnography of Kerala's Namputiri Brahmans grows out of her stay and long association with a particular family of Namputiris, as she accompanied her husband, the eminent Indologist, Asko Parpola, on his own field and textual investigations into the community's preservation of their Vedic liturgies and rites. Spanning the period of the early 1980s into the mid-'90s, this field experience provided an excellent opportunity for anthropological research into this important and ...