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Article: Verwandtschaft und Sozialitat bei den Jenu Kurumba.
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- The Journal of the American Oriental Society
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- January 1, 1998
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By ULRICH DEMMER. Beitrage zur Sudasienforschung, Sudasien-Institut, Universitat Heidelberg, vol. 173. Pp. xi + 193. Stuttgart: FRANZ STEINER VERLAG, 1996. DM 66, OS 515.
The book presents an ethnographic study of the Jenu Kurumba, a tribe of hunter-gatherers and forest traders in the Nilgiri area of South India. Since I am not an ethnographer or an anthropologist, I shall discuss the work under review from the point of view of a Dravidianist who is primarily interested in the languages and the cultures of Dravidian-speaking tribal communities of the Nilgiris.
In contrast to most early scholars who distinguished between two ethnic communities, the Jenu ...