Kinship and Rituals Among the Meo of Northern India: Locating Sibling RelationshipThe ethnographic focus here is the Meo community, Mulims of "Rajput" status whose territory "Mewat" covers the triangular area at the intersection of the states of U.P., Haryana, and Rajasthan, adjoining Delhi. In terms of family and kinship, and the associated ceremonies, myths, and legends, the Meo have long been regarded as unusual among Indian Muslims, a phenomenon that this study thoroughly explores. |
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A caste and a faith | 17 |
Meo kinship vocabulary | 38 |
Kinship and territory | 80 |
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affinal kin agnatic kin analysis barāt barber barsas basic cell behnoļ bhābī bhāī and bahin bhāt bhūt Bisru Bisseriya thamba Brahmin bride brother brother-sister pairs linked brother-sister relationship called caudri ceremonial chains of relatives circumcision clan consanguinity and affinity context cross-cousin dahej Demrot distinction between consanguines Dravidian Dumont ego's equivalent father Figure filiation Gaur Brahmins girl's global got-nepalya got-palya groom hierarchical opposition Hindi Hindu husband husband-wife couple ibid India isogamy jajmānī system jāti jījā Kallar kin terms kinship terminology kinship vocabulary Kshatriya life-cycle rites marriage marriage alliance marriage rites married sister maternal uncle Meerut metasiblingship Mewat region mother Muslim nanad opposite-sex metasibling chain paternal aunt patrilineal prestations Rājpūt relations ritual services saddu sahvāsanī sālā sālī samdhan samdhī pūjā same-sex siblings service castes side south India status structural subclan superiority terminology territorial units thamba transgenerational unilineal descent Uparla viewpoint wedding wife wife-giver wife-takers wife's woman women